2022/23 Federal Budget 2.0  - A Guide

With seven months before the 2023-24 Budget released in May 2023, this Budget is a shuffling of the deck not a new set of cards.

Key measures include:

• Child care subsidy increase
• Added flexibility and an expansion of Paid Parental Leave
• Aged care reforms
• Change to the taxation of off-market share buy-back by listed companies
• The scrapping of the initiative to self-assess the effective life of intangible assets
• Scrapping of the announced but not legislated 3 year audit cycle for SMSFs
• Energy grants for SMEs (but no detail yet)
• Tightening of the thin cap rules and the denial of deductions for intangible assets between related parties in certain circumstances
• More cash to the ATO to pursue personal income tax non-compliance and multi-nationals
• More funding for the Tax Practitioners board to pursue dodgy tax agents