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Jacob Fenech

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958 total appearances

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Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

And that's...

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

I mean, it definitely helps smooth the process.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

You can imagine if you didn't have that and you came to the end of the year, it would be pretty scary to actually come to file your taxes as an employee without any – you want to be pretty good at parking some of that cash.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

Otherwise, you'd have a big liability at the end.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

So pay-as-you-go taxes, I think, for employees are the most common.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

You've got things like installments, so PAYG installments or pay-as-you-go installments, which are different to those withholdings.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

And that's, say, for people that have businesses or other people that have investment income as well.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

So usually you have to have a couple of grand at least to start paying those installments.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

They're usually quarterly as well.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

Other things you can see like GST is another big tax that people definitely, whether you've got a small business or you're a contractor, is relevant as well.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

And so you could be filing business activity statements to help pay that GST tax as well.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

So they're usually the, I suppose, the couple of main ones.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

The other ones that we can see are, say, like franking credits where a business is paying tax on your behalf and you're claiming, say, as a shareholder via tax return.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

We can come back to that too.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

But, yeah, I would say that's the main kind of drivers in terms of where your tax is going and how it's actually being physically paid, I suppose.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

Yeah, so it's, I mean, it's 75,000 per year.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

I think this is a really relevant point because sometimes what happens is there's a couple of quirks to that, Owen, as well.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

So I'll chat quickly to them.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

So one of them is if you're doing any sort of ride-sharing service, you have to file business activity statements and actually pay GST from the first dollar.

Australian Finance Podcast
Tax time 2022: things to know (to get the best return)

And that brings you into that system pretty quickly.