If you provide vouchers or short term charge facilities to your employees, from 1 April 2014 the rules on FBT are changing. Cjharities will no linger be exempt when the total value of the benefit (eg petrol vouchers, pre-loaded credit cards etc) exceeds the lower of 5% of the employee Read more…
Charities registered with Charities Services are required to file an Annual Return. This can be done fairly easily on-line. It appears onerous but is not. There are penalties, including deregistering, for those who do not submit an Annual Return. If you are having trouble with your Annual Return contact Charities Read more…
I hear that changes are proposed to non-profit regulation and reporting in Australia. Can you tell me more? There is a detailed comment on the King and Wood Malleson’s website. There’s also comment in a recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald.
GALA – The Group Against Liquor advertising has been disbanded.
I want to form a non-profit organisation. How do I go about it ? The relevant information is contained on the website of the Registrar of Incorporated Societies and there are Fact Sheets on the Charities website. You should consider consulting a lawyer over legal requirements, but the requirements are Read more…