Are you spending too much time on admin work in your business?

As a small business owner we wear a lot of hats:

  • generating income to the business (aka the bread winner)
  • issuing invoices and following up on overdue invoices from non-paying customers
  • managing bills and payment of such
  • recording transactions and preparing BAS
  • responding to requests from clients/leads
  • checking the mail/emails
  • keeping up with your industry’s regulations
  • Tidying up the office
  • … the list goes on.

Question to you: on average how many hours of admin work do you do every week?

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Employers’ PAYG Withholding obligations

Business owners normally are able to claim a tax deduction on their wages paid, regardless of whether they have fulfilled the ATO’s PAYG Withholding and reporting obligations for that payment.

The rules are changing from 1 July 2019…

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Single Touch Payroll – get sorted now!

Think your good old spreadsheet or notepad is good enough to keep track of employees’ wages? Think again!

On 12 February 2019, the Parliament has passed the laws requiring all businesses use single touch payroll from 1 July 2019.

This means that from 1 July 2019 onwards, all businesses that employ staff, whether it is 1 or 100, are required to register for single touch payroll to keep track of their employee wages, PAYG Withholding and superannuation obligations.

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Top 10 things to consider when employing new staff

Every now and then we get asked the question – “I want to hire someone to help with our business so I can have more time growing my business.” But before you put an ad up, or spread the word around, have you considered the following 10 things about finding the right staff, your business financial situation and understand the extra compliance work required?

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