When is a partnership not a partnership and if it isn't what should you be doing? If it is, are you sure you are doing it correctly? How do joint ventures properly fit in? This convention paper looks at the various tax issues that need to be considered in creating, dealing with and ending tax partnerships and/or law partnerships so the tax results are correctly understood and applied.
The paper considers the effects of:
- tax law partnership v general law partnership
- CGT (including the small business concessions)
- GST (including registration of the correct entity/ies)
- stamp duty
- losses
- alienation.
This paper was also presented on 11 September 2004 at the Victorian/Tasmanian State Convention held in Launceston.