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The Government will be issuing the $900 stimuls tax rebate to people who lodge their 2008-2009 tax return, even if those people are now dead.

So how do dead people stimulate the economy?

A spokesman for Treasurer Wayne Swan confirmed that if a person lodged a tax return and later died, they would qualify. [Read more →]

Are you struggling to complete your BAS form?

No sooner have we finished lodging BAS for the December Quarter, to find the January – March 2009 Quarter will soon be due. Contact us for HELP

Quarterly BAS
Most businesses submit quarterly, and the 1 January – 31 March 2009 (Quarter 3) BAS is due 28 April 09 for lodgment and payment with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).

A new client contacted us out of desperation. Struggling to prepare all the documentation for the Business Activity Statement, she could not get the figures to balance.

We suggested she email us the MYOB data file, so that we could get a clearer understanding of where she was at with her bookwork. Contact us for HELP with your BAS

“I had trouble with my MYOB files and contacted Carol and her team and they were just excellent.
They listened and then explained what they could do to help.
Everything was done speedily, efficiently and most of all cost effectively.
They emailed me how to send my files and worked on them that day!
Most of all “they listen” and don’t treat you like a dummy!
It got me out of a potentially tricky situation and literally saved the day!
Thanks Carol.
Liz Bird, Perth WA”

Monthly BAS
If your business submits the (BAS) Business Activity Statement monthly, then 21 March 09 was the due date for lodgement and payment of the February 2009 monthly activity statements

Superannuation Guarantee Contributions
Also on that date are due the Quarter 3 Superannuation guarantee contributions (1 January -31 March) contributions to be made to the fund by this date.

If you are struggling to complete your BAS form, contact our team of Pascoe Vale Bookkeepers for HELP

Bookkeeping: A Tax Free Lunch on the ATO? Clients often ask about meals as a tax deduction.

With the new Australian Government Tax- Free Stimulus Package Bonus to $900, how many free lunches would that get?

So if you want a free lunch, then the Australian Government one-off tax-free payments of up to $900 for eligible taxpayers, could be your ticket [Read more →]

Before you realise, Easter will be upon us, then the end of the financial year

A client asked us today whether he should make the final balloon payment on his earthmoving equipment, even though he still has 12 more months to pay it off

We’re not registered tax agents and can’t advise whether he’s better paying the lump sum before the end of this financial year, or whether he should carry the payments over into next year.

If your bookwork’s not upto date, how do you make an informed decision about your tax liabilities?

If you don’t have your bookwork upto date, or if bookkeeping is the last thing on your mind right now, then how can you make an informed decision about your tax liabilities for the financial year ending 30 June 2009?

How do you know if you should make a lump sum payment on your vehicle lease this year? If you ask your accountant, you’ll most likely be told that without seeing any upto date figures for this financial year, your accountant cannot give you an informed answer

To prepare for the end of the financial year is not as difficult or as daunting as the task may appear. In fact, the ATO offer you encouragement to get your financials upto date with the quarterly BAS requirements.

Look no further, stress no more, simply contact us, as we provide an outsourced bookkeeping service. Our mobile bookkeepers can come to your premises, work on your computer, or pick up the paperwork and take it away to return with neatly filed and documented set of accounts ready for you to take to your accountant

Sounds like a simple and obvious bookkeeping tip: Don’t pay an invoice twice.

Most times you’ve probably paid an invoice twice simply because you are in a hurry, see an overude notice or glance quickly at a statement that you’ve just received, and you panic, right?

Then when you set aside a few minutes to catch up on your bookkeeping, how bad do you feel when you’ve realised that you’ve paid a supplier’s invoice twice?

For professional bookkeeping help or to hire a bookkeeper, contact our Pascoe Vale South, Coburg North, Keilor East, North Essendon, Inner Northern Suburbs book-keepers today

9 tips to avoid paying the same invoice twice

It’s easy to make some basic bookkeeping errors in the course of your business day. Whether you’re based in Pascoe Vale South, Coburg North, Keilor East, North Essendon, Inner Northern Suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, good bookkeeping is an important part of your business.

Here’s nine tips to ensure that you and / or your bookkeeper never pay the same invoice twice: [Read more →]

It’s hard to comprehend how those people that have survived the Victorian Bushfires can be feeling.

Having personally experienced the ravages of a bushfire, you can be certain that the speed at which flames can travel is unbelievable. A combination of high ambient temperatures, drought, and strong winds that can change direction without warning, it’s not a situation that anyone would want to personally experience.

What’s so amazing is the response from so many “average” Aussies, from all over the nation, and all over the world. The fact that even in what are already tough times for many riding through an economic storm, so many Aussies have made donations to the Red Cross , realising how well off they are compared to those bushfire victims that have endured such heavy losses.

Our prayers, thoughts, empathy, and donations go out to all those that have been affected.

You can still make donations to the Red Cross here: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineDonations.asp

Congratulations to all those Australians honoured for Australia Day

We salute all those that make enormous contributions to the country in their own small way, but because they are not well known sports people, musicians or film stars nobody seems to want to honour them.

[would the Australia Day honours be political?]

Without Australia’s anonymous heroes this nation would not be what it is today!

This year Australia Day falls on a Monday, so the nation gets a long weekend!

There’s a certain sector of the community with a big chip on their shoulders, who do not seem to want to move on with their lives, and want to call an event that happened over 200 years ago “Invasion Day”

Well, that’s fine, if it makes you feel better. However, why not join your fellow countrymen, who’ve realised that you can’t change the past, and instead take a more positive approach? Get over it, and move forward. On the one hand you want integration, and on the other you want to promote discrimination.

Happy “Australia Day” Australia! Let’s just party!

Perhaps with all the best intentions, our financial planning client was having a go at doing their own bookkeeping.

When a financial planner contacts a bookkeeping service because they are eighteen months behind in the paperwork, there’s a touch of irony.

It’s like the sparkie who still hasn’t wired up some extra powerpoints in his house though his wife’s been nagging him for three months

Or the accountant who has not lodged their own tax return for a couple of years

Business owners can get so caught up in the busy-ness of every day activities that they can never seem to find time to work on their business.

Even financial planners need the help of freelance bookkeepers to help them with the genera bookkeeping duties such as entering customer and supplier invoices, entering receipts, and calculating fuel expenses etc

Unless you’re passionate about bookeeping, you’ll always find excuses for putting it off.

As a bookkeeping service covering Pascoe Vale South, Coburg North, Keilor East, North Essendon, Inner Northern Suburbs of Melbourne, we are often called up to tidy up the mess that has accumulated over the past few months. Contact us for details[Read more →]

You may well ask how can a book-keeping fix a leaking pipe.

Simply this: If you’ve got a leaking pipe, you get it fixed; If you’ve got problems with cashflow, you want it fixed.

It’s hard to fix the problem if you do not know the cause. As business owners and/or operators around Pascoe Vale South, Coburg North, Keilor East, North Essendon, Inner Northern Suburbs of Melbourne you need to keep a handle on your finances to keep your business running. Contact us now for a free consultation
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Use an efficient and simplified system to keep your book keeping in order, your books upto date and produce reports so that you have an accurate and current record of where your business is each week.

Do you know that saying:”A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing”? When applied to an accounting software package like Quickbooks or MYOB, it can become costly.

Many clients around Pascoe Vale South, Coburg North, Keilor East, North Essendon, Inner Northern Suburbs of Melbourne have contacted our professional bookkeeping service after having difficulties keeping on top of their bookkeeping. Contact us for more details

They’ve been shown just enough to be able to enter data and produce reports. However the reports that are generated are not a true reflection of their business.
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