Bookkeepers and Mobile Bookkeeping Services

We received a hoax email today, telling us:

You have recieved a Hallmark E-Card

Sounds great, but fortunately we receive them in HTML code and could see
As soon as you see that it’s directing you to an EXE file then Be WARNED

You are about to download something yukky that could be a virus or some spy software

Have a look at the spelling of “recieved” !!!

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) announced that their E-Record system will not be available from July 2010.

Check out this free accounting software system that may suit your needs

So where does that leave small business owners?

Many of our bookkeeping clients around Nerang, Broadbeach, Carrara and Merrimac do not have accounting software, they [Read more →]

“We’ll get you number 1 on Google for ” Bookkeeping Services”

Have you noticed how telemarketers are now contacting your website and wanting to sell you search engine placement? We received yet another call today. [Read more →]

We suggest to our Gold Coast bookkeeping clients that they get their bookwork upto date before the end of the financial year, 30 June 2010

When’s the last time you’ve given your business a health check? Don’t leave your bookkeeping until it’s too late!

With end of financial year for 2009 – 2010 fast approaching, it’s a good idea to get your bookkeeping upto date.

By being ontop of your bookwork, you can have a chat with your accountant and make sure that you have the correct strategies in place to reduce your tax liabilities.

Rather than struggle with your bookkeeping contact our team of professional bookkeepers serving Coolangatta at the southern end of the Gold Coast, to Helensvale and Coomera, Nerang to Broadbeach and all sububs in between

Just received an email
Friday, May 07, 2010
Subject: Thank you for buying iTunes Gift Certificate!

Just before I deleted this email from my spam filter, I just thought I’d check it out. Whilst I was quite certain it was a scam, I also think many people will be tricked with this free offer of an iTunes Gift Certificate.

The body of this email contains the following:

Hello!
You have received an iTunes Gift Certificate in the amount of $50.00 You can find your certificate code in attachment below.

Then you need to open iTunes. Once you verify your account, $50.00 will be credited to your account, so you can start buying music, games, video right away.
iTunes Store.

There’s no company logo – and the next clue is the email contains the attachment iTunes_certificate_197.zip and in the attachment is the program file iTunes_certificate_197.exe.

Alarm bells ring when someone sends an .exe file as an attachment – you’ve been warned

What’s the first question that people tend to ask you when you attend a business function, after the formalities of introduction?

“What do you do?” or “what businesa are you in?”

Here’s a clip from the Armstrong and Miller Show

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is searching Facebook as well as other social networking sites to chase offshore investors

According to tax expert Tony Anamourlis, who’s a lecturer at Latrobe University’s faculty of Law and Management. He reckons that the ATO is using such resources to investigate investors using offshore havens. Whilst there’s been pressure on international banks to supply information, Swiss bank UBS has not been so forthcoming.

Why do people tell their whole story on the internet anyway? Apparently insurance companies in the UK charge a higher premium for Facebook account holders because people are so open. Individuals have been known to tell other Facebook fans that exact dates that they will be going on holiday, only to return to find their house burgled.

Why would high-net wealth tax payers reveal so much information in cyber-space? Who knows! At the same time, it seems that staff at the ATO have nothing better to do thatn to surf the internet. How much is that costing the Australian Tax payer?

There’s many reasons why you should get your bookkeeping upto date before the end of the financial year on 30 June 2010.

Often clients are devastated when they discover how much tax they have to pay because they didn’t plan for the FYE (financial year end). Leaving it until after 30 June is too late.

We are not tax agents or accounts, but our team of mobile Gold Coast bookkeepers can certainly help you get your paperwork upto date so that you can at least have three quarters of the 2009/2010 financial year upto date and ready to visit your accountant before the end of June 2010

We’ve been asked what happens when the BAS is due on a weekend or Public Holiday, as is the case for the December quarter (normally due 28 February)

The ATO website advised that:

“Lodgment and/or payment will be due on the next business day for all taxpayers regardless of where the taxpayer is located.

If the due date falls on a public holiday which is a public holiday for the whole of a state or territory, taxpayers in all states and territories may lodge and/or pay on the first business day regardless of whether they celebrate that public holiday.”

Since 28 February 2010 is a Sunday, and there’s a public holiday in Western Australia on 1st March, the first business day is Tuesday 2 March 2010

Have a look for yourself on the Australian Taxation Office website, that explains: “Due date for lodgment or payment falling on a weekend or a public holiday”

http://www.ato.gov.au/taxprofessionals/content.asp?doc=/content/12510.htm&page=2&H2

Chairman KEV & the fiscal wizards

*The facts as reported separately by Ross Greenwood and Alan Jones just this week! *

Australians will be repaying $15.4 billion in interest and principal every year …. $733 for
every man woman and child – every year.

*Greenwood the money man did the maths for us and said: “Right now the Federal Government is at pains to tell everyone -including us the mug-punters to the International Monetary Fund that it will not exceed its
own, self-imposed, borrowing limits.

How much? $200 billion. And here’s a worry. If you work in a bank’s money market operation; or if you are a politician; the millions turn into billions and it rolls off
the tip of the tongue a bit too easily.

But every dollar that is borrowed, some time, has to be repaid. By you, by me and by the rest of the country. [Read more →]