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ATO clears up FAQs about Single Touch Payroll
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GST reporting: common errors and how to correct them
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LRBAs, guarantees in need of review after property market falls
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Victorian Property Valuation Cycle
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Australia - toward EOFY 2019
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Australian Taxation Office (ATO) expects 200,000 to miss out on refunds by failing to lodge
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Biggest personal tax cuts in a decade a priority for Government
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Government rules out GST changes following ATO report
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ATO issues warning after ‘unprecedented’ spike in impersonation scams
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Crypto transactions in ATO sights with new data-matching program
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Government to establish $2 billion fund for small business lending
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Small business corporate tax rates Bill is now law
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ATO to double rental deduction audits to 4,500
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ATO set to issue excess super contribution determinations
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How's Australia going as we approach the election?
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Single Touch Payroll (STP) is compulsory for all small businesses.
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Federal Budget 2019 - Overview
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FBT Reminder – Odometer Reading
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‘Big awareness push’ underway as STP deadline approaches
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GST collection on overseas goods at 300% of forecasts
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The problem with getting to 53 years of age.
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Lost Beneficiaries
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Some Australian figures to help on Budget night.
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Lost Beneficiaries

How does an executor trace a missing beneficiary?

       

 

Under the Administration of Estates Act, the law says there is a legal obligation to find and distribute estates of people who die without making wills.

But Centrelink insists that identifying anyone, even to a lawful estate trustee, is an invasion of privacy.  So, one government department will not report to another.

Apparently, it is easier than the alternative of helping people get what is rightfully theirs.

Do you have an up to date will or might your executor face extra costs and beneficiaries miss out?

 

 

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