Session 2 Business Structures & Restructures Online Workshop
Session 2 of the Business Structures & Restructures Workshop explores the common SME structures and when to change.
Gain the confidence to explore business structure options with clients
The pros, cons, risks and key issues to consider with the most popular SME structures
Opportunities within the tax system to restructure in a more efficient way
Session 2 of the 4 part series. Please purchase the package here.
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Business structure makes a difference.
It impacts on:
- The amount of tax paid and when it’s paid
- The risk exposure for owners and management
- Ease of succession planning, and
- Costs of operation and ease of debt funding
Using real life case studies, the Business Structures & Restructures online workshop will help you:
- Identify the key factors and risk areas when creating a structure
- Recognise the indicators of when a structure is past its ‘use by’ date
- Manage changes to a business structure, and
- Work through the ATO’s specific guidance on professional firm profits.
Sometimes the best structure from a tax perspective just doesn’t make sense commercially. There is no ‘one size fits all’ approach and sometimes the right structure will involve compromise. Understanding what compromises to accept requires an understanding of the impact of each.
Best suited to partners/directors, managers and client facing team members as well as CEOs and CFOs from mid-sized or growing SMEs.
Recorded Friday, 4 April 2025
Total 1.5 CPD Hours
The Business Structures & Restructures workshop will help you to identify key factors and risk areas when creating a structure, recognise when a structure is past its 'use by' date, and manage structural change.
Using real life case studies, the workshop is designed to give you confidence when approaching business structures.
Session 2: Common SME structures and when to change
Common SME structures
- Advantages, disadvantages and issues to consider for common SME structures
- Companies with shares held by trusts
- Partnerships of trusts
- Unit trusts
- Mixture of company and trust structure
- Holding company / subsidiary company
- When particular structures might be more suitable than others
- Assessing the impact of recent ATO guidance on trust structures
- Current thinking and practical solutions
Moving to a more complex structure
- Identifying when a business has outgrown its existing structure
- Are you change friendly?
- Managing the change process
- Avoiding the traps
Michael Carruthers
Tax Director, Knowledge Shop
Michael is an adviser, author, in demand presenter, mentor to Knowledge Shop’s technical team, and is well known for his capacity to translate highly technical information into tangible and useable advice for the profession. He has a knack for seeing through the complexity and helping advisers work through highly technical issues with certainty and accuracy.
Michael works with advisers every day to help them negotiate and implement the constant tide of change impacting the industry. He was a long-term member of the advisory panel for the Board of Taxation and was a member of the reference group for the Board’s review of small business concessions.
He was also an expert panel member for the Board’s review of tax impediments facing small business.
Session 2 Business Structures & Restructures Online Workshop
Tax & Accounting
1.5 hours | 2 modules
Investment per person: $ 453.64 + GST
Team cost: $ 1,136.36 + GST
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CPD Hours: 1.5 hrs
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SMSF
Tax Accounting
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