Claiming foreign tax credits on capital gains made from overseas investments
3rd Mar 2020
Matthew Marcarian
Burton’s case [Burton v Commissioner of Taxation [2019] FCAFC 141] has set an interesting precedent for claiming foreign tax credits on capital gains made from the sale of overseas investments in...
Family Trusts
20th Feb 2020
Daniel Wilkie
On 17 February 2020 the Australian Financial Review ran an article titled ‘Fresh scrutiny of trust payouts to beneficiaries’ For clients who may have seen the article, we wanted to...
Non-Residents Can No Longer Claim The CGT Main Residence Exemption
28th Jan 2020
Matthew Marcarian
On December 5th 2019 the contentious law denying non-residents the Capital Gains Tax (CGT) main residence exemption was passed This means that the update we...
Update on CGT Main Residence Exemption for Expats
12th Nov 2019
Matthew Marcarian
Bill has passed and is now law The law passed is the Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures) Bill 2019 ) It was passed with no further amendments This means...
Our Founder – John Marcarian – Wins Expatpreneur Award
20th May 2019
CST Tax Advisors
Our Founder, John Marcarian, has won the prestigious Longevity Award in The Finder’s Expatpreneuer Awards 2019 The Expatpreneur Awards honour foreign-born entrepreneurs running successful...
What CST Clients Need To Know About The Budget Announcements
3rd Apr 2019
Daniel Wilkie
The big tax announcement in this week’s budget centred around: Further personal income tax cuts; Increased asset write offs for small business; Increased funding for the ATO to tackle tax...
Residency – Harding’s Appeal Victory
5th Mar 2019
Matthew Marcarian
The biggest personal tax residency case in 40 years just got bigger The taxpayer Mr Glen Harding having lost his case in front of a single judge in the Federal Court has won an emphatic victory in...
The Road to Oz
8th Feb 2019
CST Tax Advisors
Our Principal, Mathew Marcarian, together with our Managing Director in Singapore, Boon Tan, were recently featured in the STEP Journal (a publication produced by STEP for its members)...
Permanent Place of Abode – Harding Appeals to common sense
24th Jul 2018
Matthew Marcarian
The taxpayer, Mr Harding has appealed to the Full Federal Court of Australia from a decision handed down on 8 June 2018 by Justice Derrington, in...