The tax effective extraction of retained profits from private companies has been and continues to be one of the greatest challenges for SME taxation advisers. The top-up tax goal posts have recently moved, and further changes are expected. This event covered:
- changes impacting the top up tax rate: corporate tax rate reduction
- franking credit refunds through SMSF shareholders
- Division 7A secured and unsecured loans
- share cancellations, reductions and buy-backs
- dividend access shares, dividend streaming, dividend stripping and value shifting
- capital payments anti-avoidance provisions: sections 45A and 45B issues
- pre-CGT assets and shares
- dealing with capital losses.