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Kate James, Total Balance

Kate James, Total Balance

Through her business coaching and life coaching, Kate James works with the concepts of mindfulness, creativity and authenticity to help people chan... Read more

Bob Jones, an SEO Company

Bob Jones, an SEO Company

'an SEO Company' provides authentic SEO services for small businesses in Australia. Read more

Michael Vincent, Sports Partners

Michael Vincent, Sports Partners

Sports Partners is a free, fun site where people can find other people, clubs, or businesses for sports and hobbies. Read more

Fiona Johnston, Peach Business Management

Fiona Johnston, Peach Business Management

Fiona works with small business owners getting started or growing an existing business. Her services include creating business plans, tax planning ... Read more

Nick Humphries, Akitso Web Design

Nick Humphries, Akitso Web Design

Akitso Web Design is a web design company that sells fully-featured professional websites to small businesses. They make getting a website for your... Read more

Keagan York, Compass Global Markets Pty Ltd

Keagan York, Compass Global Markets Pty Ltd

Compass Global Markets can help you with any aspect of the Foreign Currency transfers and Commodity markets from corporate hedging to wealth creation. Read more

Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design

Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design

Function5 Web Design creates and manages an online presence for small businesses, from basic information websites through to feature rich shopping ... Read more

Dane Pymble, Small Business Wizardry

Dane Pymble, Small Business Wizardry

Small Business Wizardry gives small business owners the tools and resources they need to start and grow their business. Read more

Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies

Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies

Enigma Technologies provides IT implementation, support and deployment to a wide range of clients, from home users to multi nationals. Read more

Gabriel Dukes, Shelcom Corporate Services

Gabriel Dukes, Shelcom Corporate Services

Shelcom Corporate Services help make the government registration process of starting up a company simple, fast and faultless for new business owners. Read more

Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.

Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.

Ann Nixon provides broad counselling and psychotherapy services to clients in the inner city and eastern suburbs of Sydney. Read more

Daniel Abela, Graphic & Web

Daniel Abela, Graphic & Web

Daniel Abela is a graphic and web designer offering digital and print solutions to clients of all sizes right around Australia. Read more

Alex Levashov, Altima Interactive

Alex Levashov, Altima Interactive

Altima Interactive provides web business consulting, web design and web development to help people grow their business online. Read more

Karen Wickham, That’s Creative!

Karen Wickham, That’s Creative!

That's Creative! provides graphic and website design services to clients right across the world. Currently Ebook Design is their most popular servi... Read more

Simon Paxton

Simon Paxton

Simon Paxton helps people make their events exciting and memorable with performances of the mysteries of the mind. Read more

Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood

Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood

Ben Jones provides property maintenance services within Ringwood, Ringwood North and Warranwood. Read more

Bree Cleal, Imageffect

Bree Cleal, Imageffect

Imageffect creates great branding solutions for small to medium sized businesses who care enough about themselves to realise that the way they pres... Read more

Richard Jenner, The Type Shed

Richard Jenner, The Type Shed

Richard Jenner does graphic design, for any application - print, web, packaging, shop fronts, signs... anything that requires text / images arrange... Read more

Nicole Leedham, Black Coffee Communication

Nicole Leedham, Black Coffee Communication

Black Coffee Communication helps clients increase sales and improve brand recognition through compelling business writing. Read more

Amy Barry, Pendle Party and Event Hire

Amy Barry, Pendle Party and Event Hire

Pendle Party and Event Hire is a family business that offers party and event equipment for hire to south east Queensland. Read more

Kate James, Total Balance
Bob Jones, an SEO Company
Michael Vincent, Sports Partners
Fiona Johnston, Peach Business Management
Nick Humphries, Akitso Web Design
Keagan York, Compass Global Markets Pty Ltd
Tim Pacheco, Function5 Web Design
Dane Pymble, Small Business Wizardry
Tom Evison, Enigma Technologies
Gabriel Dukes, Shelcom Corporate Services
Ann Nixon, Sydney Psych.
Daniel Abela, Graphic & Web
Alex Levashov, Altima Interactive
Karen Wickham, That’s Creative!
Simon Paxton
Ben Jones, Hire a Hubby Ringwood
Bree Cleal, Imageffect
Richard Jenner, The Type Shed
Nicole Leedham, Black Coffee Communication
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Capital Gains Tax

Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is the tax that you pay on any capital gain you include on your annual income tax return. Read more

Excise duties

Excise duty is a tax levied on certain types of goods produced or manufactured in Australia. Read more

Fringe Benefits Tax

Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) is a tax payable by employers for benefits paid to an employee or the employee's associate. Read more

Goods & Services Tax

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is a broad-based tax of 10 per cent on the sale of most goods and services and other things in Australia. Read more

Income tax for business

Federal income tax is levied on the taxable income of a person or a business. Read more

International tax

Residents and non-residents have different tax rates, which is why you need to find out what international tax obligations apply to you. Read more

Land tax

Land tax is an annual state government tax payable by the owner of land. Read more

Land tax in your state or territory

Contact the Revenue Office in your state or territory for information on land tax. Read more

Pay As You Go (PAYG) withholding

Pay As You Go (PAYG) withholding is a legal requirement to withhold amounts for income tax purposes. Read more

Rates

Rates are property taxes charged by local government on properties in their municipal area. Read more

Stamp duty

State and territory governments impose taxes on a range of paper and electronic transactions. Read more

Tax concessions for small business entities

From 1 July 2007 eligible small business entities can access a number of tax concessions. Read more

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