Tax Workshop – Newcastle (Feb 2026)

25 Feb 2026 8:00AM – 10:30AM AEDT

Tax workshops

$260.00 +GST

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Venue: Apollo International Hotel Newcastle, Apollo 2, 290 Pacific Highway, Charlestown NSW 2290

The Tax Workshop is perfect for sole practitioners and small practices, offering practical, expert-led sessions designed to refresh your knowledge and keep you ahead in the ever-changing tax landscape.

The following topics will be covered in the February session:

Tax Brief

What we cover: Our Tax Brief is a review of the current tax landscape to keep you up-to-date with any changes and current news.

Director Remuneration and Tax

Correctly taxing director remuneration should be relatively straightforward provided that the benefits that are provided to the directors are appropriately identified and categorised. Whether benefits provided to a director who is a significant shareholder or a founder of the business are provided ‘in respect of employment’ may be controversial.

In the small business sector there may be the added complexity of family members acting as directors of the corporate trustee of a trust which carries on the business as well as being actively involved in the business. The family setting may encourage in the directors a sense of entitlement to trust assets.

While larger companies may have more transparency, they are still not immune from directors being able to obtain personal benefits at the company’s expense. Often these benefits are taken as an entitlement due to the important role of director.

In this session we consider, among other things:

Directors as employees – even if they are at personal risk
- Leave entitlements
- PAYG obligations
- Superannuation guarantee obligations
- Fringe benefits and the deeming rule in s. 137(1) of the FBTA Act
Remuneration if the individual fills multiple roles:
- FCT v SEPL Pty Ltd as trustee of the SFT Trust [2025] FCA 581
- Starrim Pty Ltd v FCT [2000] FCA 952
- Can a director be paid just in dividends?
- MT 2019 – shareholder employees of family private companies and directors of corporate trustees
Personal risk of directors for certain tax liabilities of the company
Deductions to which a director may be entitled in their individual tax returns

All TaxBanter tax training qualifies as eligible CPE/CPD hours.

Terms and Conditions

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