Anthony Buckland International Tax Accountant in Darwin, Northern Territory | Company
Anthony Buckland International Tax Accountant
Locality: Darwin, Northern Territory
Phone: +61 449 530 242
Address: Shop 31 21 Cavanagh Street 0800 Darwin, NT, Australia
Website: http://wintergateinternational.com
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22.01.2022 With the sale of my business to an International firm it marks a big step forward for the practice. From their ASEAN location the new ownership structure will provide a full range of financial services including audit, tax advice, tax return preparation and lodgement, financial planning and advice, legal advice and investment advice and services. Opening into Africa and ASEAN will also provide a wide range of additional benefits. Our links to the Toronto Stock exchange will allow additional reach into investments in the North of America, As I slip into retirement I will always be in the background as an adviser and consultant to this business. Cheers Anthony Buckland AEC BA(Hons) LLB(Hons) BB (Acct) AICD Dip, Dip Leg Prac
21.01.2022 Its well documented that people in the North are very mobile. Always on the move some experts put the rate of changed addresses at 40% every year. Its also a fact that each an every tax payer must keep their tax records for a minimum of five years. This time period can be much longer with Objections to assessments taking up to 2 years, and other tax matters having even longer lifes such as depreciation or debts. So thats an awful large amount of materials for some folk. Invoi...ces, disk drives, filing cabinets, documentary evidence, such as warranties, on line records of purchases...the list is almost endless. Happily if you costs are "bona fide" (ie ridgy didge) you may be able to claim proper expenses of storing these records. Remember though that substantiation is the key to tax deductions..so keep your records and claim the cost of keeping them. See more
17.01.2022 Tax season is upon us. With the successful pivot and transition to India Pacific operation, our relocaction into ASEAN and inclusion in the Apat na Seasons Pilipinas professional services suite, Anthony Buckland International Tax Accountant is now operating a full online service under the GATT signed by Australia. We offer a complete service, secure, thoughtful, and devoid of the risk of the statistical marginalising techniques employed by ATO. For your online appointment by Messenger, email or text, email us at [email protected] and let us make your life better.
17.01.2022 Self education in the clever country is not so clever. You may be studying for improvement of your position in life. However be careful if you think that it is deductible against your current income. It may not be. For expenditure on self eductaion to be deductible it needs to be related to the job you are doing. Not to one you might get. You havent got that one so you are not in work as is required by the Tax Acts. Be careful to make sure that the study improves your perform...ance of the work you do or will lead to increased income and advancement in the employment stream you are in. That is what is requried for you to claim a deduction. Also make sure that you are categorising the expense properly becuase some study, such as courses run by professional and trade associations, and work related courses which dont give a final piece of paper may be better claimed in general expenses. In the tropical north study for many skills is hard to come by. Sourthern states are expensive to reach and transport and accomodation is expensive too. It may be cheaper and quicker to obtain the training and education offshore. In those events appropriate courses can allow a deduction claim for airfares accomodation and foods in the country they are run.
16.01.2022 We are so happy to share with all our clients that this year we have helped 200 clients (and growing) to greater wealth... Congratulations to you all for trusting us with your welfare. If you are one of those please feel confident to refer others you care about for our services in taxation, financial planning and professional services, legal services and administrative services. With our move into Fintech we hope to assist you with insurance products and financial services to make your finances improve, your wasted funds less, and your life better.
16.01.2022 Its an interesting time in tax as people in the north of Australia put in their details to the ATO. The long history of workers being short changed and leaned upon to support their employers continues. This is particularly so in relation to travelling expenses. In some cases firms are mis categorising the payments to employees which results, on the face of it, in large taxes being paid when it was not being expected. Congratulations on the ETU for pursuing an employer for correction of LAHA payments. If you recieved a payment of LAHA in your allowances category of your PAYG return you should look more closely at the employer payment as this will be taxable, and LAHA in fact is a Fringe Benefit payable to teh employee but tax is paid by the Employer.
15.01.2022 With the changing role of the firm and the changing attitudes and two faced approach of Australias government vis a vis the Tax Office, in particular the secret signing by Australia of a UN Tax Treaty opening up Australia totally to treaty countries for provision of financial services, I have pivoted our platform of services. We now offer tax advice tax planning and lodgment services from this international platform. As well we also offer investment services to Australians a...nd Self Managed Super Funds to give our clients direct access to ASEAN region investments and the opportunity to both diversify and get their presently funds into regional high growth high yield investments before these are too expensive to buy. We also offer investment advice and management services through our associated firms MakingHay and Apat Na Seasons Pilipinas Corp See more
13.01.2022 With the acquisition of the online tax finance and accounting business by Buckland family controlled Apat an Seasons Pilipinas, the range of services has expanded and improved. For professional investment analytics and advisory have a visit to Making Hay Every Day. For property management, trustee and international financial services visit Apat an Seasons Pilipinas pages. Soon we hope to re-establish licensee ship fronts in Northern Australia to provided book keeping, clerking services and tax related services. We wish all our valued clients a very healthy happy and affluent new year.
12.01.2022 Well the report is in and it's no surprise to us. Northern Territory employers are among the worst non payers in the country. Maybe this is due to bad attitude but I doubt it. The biggest problem for the Territory is under serving by the Federal Government on services. Business is very poorly served. Closures and reductions in services include AS IF, which is now represented by an in marked unsigned telephone hidden in a building in Woods Street..Yes a back street hidden ne...xt to the wall in a darkened unsigned floor. Australian Tax Office services also fail to be either accessible or helpful. While ATO is quick to pay out on non compliance they Gail to provide adequate or useful information services at many many levels, starting with their search engine. Relying as the ATO does on mail...It is horrifying to realise that while it relies strictly on date of posting as a reference point for legal service...Australia Post often takes a month to deliver mail...loses a significant proportion of mail including registered mail and yet provides ad hoc alternatives so poorly managed it opens the populace to fraudsters whose techniques become more believable. A dynamic workforce of people which is highly mobile leaves government services in its wake because they are geared to the norms of southern urban lifestyles. That said...without vigilance by workers and unions these defects in service provide a fertile field for entrenched money making schemes to abuse workers at many levels..not just Superannuation non compliance. A few of these are...staff abuses by aboriginal organisations...inadequate occupational health and safety management ....forcing workers off PAYG into so called ABN contractor status to avoid awards and paying super....failure to adhere to awards in relation to overtime meals..travel allowances payments...Living Away From Home Allowance charge shifting. An indicator of A TO inadequacy can easily be found by examining its own performance statistics..including what has become an almost hysterical attack on workers and small businesses and super funds whose ability to comply with mostly inadequately supported policies and standards has resulted to their massively disproportionate representation in alleged non compliance. The fact that the small population of workforce north of the Tropic of Capricorn is driving over half of the national income seems to escape policy makers and administrators...who now burden these hard workers with almost abusive levels of compliance demands coupled with inadequate and declining standards of service. See more
11.01.2022 Existing and future clients we are soon to offer a further service. As of later July we will be able to conduct Audits of Associations. For the smallest category we will offer audit for $200 flat. So if you have an association which needs an Audit, send us a message here or email to [email protected] or text on 0449530242 to make an appointment
11.01.2022 There is a rule that taxpayers in the North should be aware of. It affects those who have been made redundant and paid out on an Employment Termination Payment. The rule is based on the fact of some tax benefits to workers upon being made redundant. However often the employee is re employed. This may be by the same operation but under a different ABN number. No obvious problemts with this yet. But also it may be by the same firm and using the same ABN. If it is the same ABN then payments will need to be reimbursed to the Tax Office if the re-employment occurs less than twelve (12) months after the date of payment on the ETP form. You should seek advice about this as the alternative is a possible surprise at tax time. We are here to make your life less taxing. Have a good day.
10.01.2022 The transition of ownership to the new platform has been successful. Now integrated into Apat na Seasons Pilipinas Corporation we look forward to a wider provision of services to clients new and existing and past, throughout the ASEAN, OCEANIA and EAST AFRICAN CONFERENCE.
07.01.2022 As we get further into the tax season there are some interesting highlights. None more so than general expenses for workers. Again we find that expenses in the Tropics are way beyond the range of experience in the south of Australia, and no where is this more apparent than hydration. Since the occupational health and safety requirements of workplaces is largely influential in the southern states, the flagrant disregard of worker health and safety in the developing North has ...gone more or less unnoticed. That being said it is almost comical that some officers in Australian Taxation Office have adopted a position that is squarely opposite to their own government in relation to the issue of hydration. With the Australian Government using the obligation of the individual to ensure their levels of hydration are adequate as a successful defence against liability for a death on Uluru, it is not open to that same government, through its agency, ATO to say otherwise. Further to that large companies are aready taking steps, albiet in some cases rather poorly managed ones, to ensure that provision for the two elements of hydration, water intake and adequate levels of essential salts, occurs for workers. These provisions are part, usually, of the occupational and health requirements of the workplace determined by consultation taking advice from experts. However there are some lower level functionaries in the ATO who regard taking of large amounts of water when working, for example on roof tops, or in highly physically demanding roles such as pipe welding or concrete steel fixing, as a expenditure of a personal nature. With volumes often as much as eleven litres a day where the taxpaying worker does not sweat, such as Macarthur River Mine, it beggars belief that this extra burden of cost ought to be borne by the worker when there is no adequate hydration available from the employer. In relation to hydration there are many cases of people having inadequate levels of salts as well. The usual safe ratio of supplements of one electrolytes supplement drink, popsicle, or tablet for every four of water maintains the ability of the worker to sweat, No sweat and the worker can not cool their body and serious medical side effects ensue. To this end taking of electrolytes is again a matter for the worker to attend to and an expense they ought not have to bear without deduction in the least. It would seem the lower level functionaries of the ATO have not got this message either and are intent on refusing the deduction for these essential supplements where the employer, in the work place, will not provide them.
07.01.2022 It had to happen. We have gone international. So for advice on investing..finding professional Accounting Tax or Legal help from Botswana Tanzania to Hobart Tasmania and on out to Taunga Island Tonga in the Pacific... we are here to assist. Just call us or email or message.
06.01.2022 Well its tax time again and I bet everyone is wondering what to do..with that big pile of tax material they are carrying about with them as they move (40% of them every year in the Tropical North) from place to place. Some food for thought. The material you are carrying around is likely to include statements, receipts, folders and even memory sticks with details about every relevant stransaction for the past seven years.... The Tax Acts require you to keep these records for seven years. So the expenses you incur in keeping them are an expense in relation to your earning your income. Therefore they are deductible as expenses incurred in tax preparation. So what does it cost? Well the unwelcome visitor clogging up your spare room floor space is likely to cost you more than a pittance. Recent calculations of floor space occupied suggest between 315 and 560 dollars a year for a simple tax payers records. Much more for thise with a small business or rental properties. So next tax year give a thought to this deductions, it may be costing you much more than you have been getting credit for.
06.01.2022 Transitioning and changing is a major facet of personal progress. With the great success of my tax practices both as solicitor-barrister and accountant..my clients have all had the opportunity to share my experience..not only knowledge of tax and movement of money ....but also my students I lectured on finance, management, investment..portfolio theory and portfolio management. But now its time for me to pivot again. Sadly ...part of the disease afflicting Australia is the ef...Continue reading
02.01.2022 On the subject of deductions one of the most vexing is the distinction between depreciation rates provided by the ATO and the actual rates of depreciation in the Tropics. For example many electrical items will deteriorate far quicker then the time allocated. Washing machines are gazetted to deteriorate within 10 years. That is highly unlikely when in the Tropics they might ast only three years and then be un repairable. Advice: Take the annual depreciation until they break down irrepairably. Then deduct the full residual amount.
01.01.2022 Well the tradition of the firm to its new base in ASEAN has been a big sucess. We look forward to providing independent advice and tax preparation services for our clients in to the new year 2019
