September 2009

What expenses can I claim for with the Educational Tax Refund?

by Mitz September 7, 2009

For each child that you have in Primary or Secondary school (up to the age of 25) you can claim your expenses on the following items: computers and laptops and the expense in repairing them and updating them; software to run on the computers – this includes word, excel, power point, adobe and virus protection; [...]

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Who can claim the Education Tax Refund?

by Mikelle September 7, 2009

You can claim the Education Tax Refund if the following applies to you: the Family Tax Benefit Part A was received by you for your children that are attending school (primary and secondary only, not tertiary). Basically if you and your partner are receiving under $100,000 combined income you are entitled to Family Tax Benefit [...]

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Love Christmas? – Save money and shop early

by Mikelle September 4, 2009

Do you love or hate Christmas?  I personally love it!!  My tree is up in November, hey you spent the money you may as well enjoy the tree for longer than one month!!  My husband loves it too (amazing hey!) he actually went out and bought like 10 trees so we have a forest – [...]

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Stop cluttering up your house!!

by Mikelle September 4, 2009

You know I was always bad at collecting stuff, and I guess I still am!!  I have all my kids school books – from PREP!!! but they are put away in archive boxes!!  I used to buy stuff for my kids that they really didn’t want but I told myself that they would want it [...]

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How can I claim the Solar Hot Water Grant?

by Mikelle September 4, 2009

Do you have an electric hot water system?  Do you already have insulation in your home?  If you answered yes to both these questions then you are entitled to the Government Solar Hot Water Grant!! Like the Insulation Rebate you can get up to $1,600 to have one installed.  My father-in-law had his solar hot [...]

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Use e-tax online to save money on Accountancy bills

by Mikelle September 4, 2009

E-tax is an online `tax pack’ program.  If you have ever filled out a paper income tax return then you will be fine to do it online.  Follow this link to download the program directly from the ATO.  E-tax form This is the 2009 e-tax (for the year July 2008 to June 2009). Make sure you [...]

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Saving money at the movies

by Mikelle September 3, 2009

We all like to treat ourselves and watch a movie on the `Big Screen’ but it costs so much more than waiting until it is on DVD.  Cinemas have lots of different deals to get us to watch the movie at their cinema and one I want to share with you is Cinebuzz from Birch, [...]

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