Property

July 6, 2018

Tax treatment of long-term construction contracts

The Commissioner of Taxation recently released a taxation ruling, TR 2018/3, which provides guidance on reporting profits derived and losses incurred from long-term construction contracts. While the understandings are not vastly different to a previous release from 1987 (IT 2450), it is a healthy reminder that long-term construction contracts must be correctly accounted for to […]

January 30, 2017

Leased properties were still ‘new residential premises’

The AAT has held that GST applied to the disposal of four properties that had been built, leased and then sold. GST does not ordinarily apply to sale of residential premises unless they are ‘new residential premises’. However, there is a special rule in the GST law that states that a newly constructed property will […]

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Tax treatment of long-term construction contracts

Leased properties were still ‘new residential premises’

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