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Developing Property to be Operations Ready

ready to goThe origins of ‘Operations Ready’ go back in time and relate to the military being ready to engage.

Property companies are turning to military like tactics to ensure property developments achieve the best possible performance at completion – and are mission ready for operations.

Whether property companies develop their own property or portfolios, procure by contracting or through  property acquisitions, they tell us of the challenges of navigating handover – through transition from construction to ‘taking ownership’ of the property – and the ongoing management requirements. Continue reading

Capital allowances: draft effective lives of assets used in the wool scouring industry

Happy New Year 2017 and we are off and at again, as to the ATO.  The below is an update the ATO reviewed over Xmas for all our clients in the Wool Industry. These new effective lives will be introduced in July 2017.

If you have any concerns on your properties and have bought, built or demolished in the last 12 months, you may not be maximising the capital allowances deductions with the latest rates.

Please do not hesitate to give us a call and good luck for the year ahead.

They are seeking your comments on the draft list of effective lives we are releasing for assets used in the wool scouring industry.
Comments are open until 24 February 2017. Continue reading