Single Touch Payroll (STP) Changes are Here, are you Ready?

There have been changes to Single Touch Payroll (STP).  You need to start reporting additional information on or before each pay day. This is known as STP Phase 2.  The additional information will help Services Australia customers, who may be your employees, get the right payment. It will also reduce the need for you to

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Want Financial Freedom? How to be a Successful Home Investor

Property Series: 5 Habits of Tremendously Successful Home Investors Smart property investment decisions are one of the surest ways to achieve financial freedom that will last well into retirement. But as with anything worth striving for, it (unfortunately) isn’t easy; the property market, touted by many as unshakingly stable, still possesses inherently complex & dynamic

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Scale Your Business By Leveraging These 5 Experts

After helping over a hundred Australian small businesses become profitable and achieve consistent financial growth, the team here at The A Firm realized that scalability in business requires hitting (and breaking) plateaus.  One such plateaus is – and this may elicit gasps from long-time, one-person businesses – giving up running every part of your business,

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Everything you Need to Know about Buying your First Home

Your First Home: How To Save Quickly & Sustainably Buying your first home is a monumental occasion; it should come as no surprise then, that saving up for it can be quite the time-consuming process. And while there are no shortcuts to good old fashioned saving & responsible spending, The A Firm have certainly observed

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What are Tax Brackets?

How The Tax Bracket Affects Your Pay The Australian Government performs its tax rates based upon a sliding scale relevant to your income – but if it were this easy to understand, we wouldn’t have to write this blog! Unfortunately, multiple instances of tax brackets, tax-free threshold, assemble income, deductions, & numerous other terms coined

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