All workbooks for the year ended 30 June 2016 have been uploaded to the site for the new financial year.

Three checklists have been added for personal tax returns for the year ended 30 June 2016. Each checklist is available in both PDF and Microsoft Word format. Here are links to the PDF copies –

Forms/Records – Personal Return Short
Forms/Records – Personal Return Long
Forms/Interview – Tax Return

Estimate trust accounting distributions required for the trustee resolution by 30 June to achieve a desired taxable distribution for each beneficiary and prepare the resolution itself which forms part of the workbook.

Calculations/2016/Trust Distributions – Resolution

For those discretionary trust ledgers which have not separated the present entitlements of a private company beneficiary each year into sub-accounts, this workbook will track those entitlements and automatically allocate payments and offsets against the appropriate years.  It will also identify any UPEs which will be subject to the deemed dividend rules under Division 7A.  To speed up data entry, export data from the ledger into a spreadsheet and copy and paste into this workbook. 

Calculations/2015/Present Entitlement Register 

The latest version (2016) of this workbook includes a sheet which reconciles the FBT Expense and Liability shown in the accounts with instalments paid to the ATO and the FBT return itself.

Calculations/2016/BAS Summary & Reconciliation

All ATO benchmarks now come in one workbook and the client’s industry can be selected from a drop down list.  These latest figures were recently published by the ATO from information contained in 2014 income tax returns and activity statements.

Calculations/ATO Benchmarks