Your business

There are around 3.8 million small businesses, including 1.6 million sole traders in Australia. They employ around 5.5 million people and contribute $380bn to the economy. Small business is also in debt to the ATO to the tune of $15bn.

This tax time, the ATO has stated they are looking closely at taxpayers:

• setting up or changing to a company structure
• claiming motor vehicle expenses
• who may not be correctly apportioning between personal and business use

There is a multitude of data-matching programs and benchmarks to catch out those attempting to rort the system.

For wealthy groups and medium businesses, the focus is on structuring to avoid tax:

international risk - international profit shifting.