A practical, straightforward guide by Tony Melville & Ed Chanon how to reduce the amount of tax you pay and how to better structure your finances, this book is a must for business owners and investors! Discover how the rich use company and trust structures to protect their assets and minimise their tax.
Where can the everyday Australian go to learn about asset protection and structuring? Tony & Ed point out that no means of public education exists for those who want to learn how the rich do it, and that’s why they wrote this book. With tax legislation becoming more complex, Tony & Ed have simplified and summarised the important points so that anyone who wants to learn now has the opportunity.
Here’s a taste of what’s inside the book …
- The difference between a company structure and a trust.
- The 7 different types of trusts and how to use them.
- Why you should rarely buy an investment in your own name.
- How to protect your assets from lawsuits, taxes and creditors.
- How to maximise the tax benefits of your investments.
- How you can pass your wealth onto your children and have it protected for generations.
- How to protect your business assets.
- That tax is a game which can be played by everyone, not just the rich.
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Tags: Australia · Finance · Non-Fiction
With great intelligence and subtlety, Haigh gradually shows how everyone has his or her particular “condition” and it is inseparable from personality, behaviour and fate.” Kerryn Goldsworthy smh.com.au July 5 2008
The Condition explores one turbulent year in the lives of the McKotches, a New England family in extremis. Paulette and Frank McKotch, long divorced, hide a mountain of old grievances from their three adult children who are busy with crises of their own. Billy, the eldest, is a successful Manhattan cardiologist living a double life. Scott the youngest, has made an endless series of wrong turns. And Gwen, the daughter, lives a hermitic life far away from her parents. The family attributes her reclusive temperament to her Turner’s syndrome, a chromosomal disorder that has left her with the stature and physical maturity of an eleven year old child. From the day it was diagnosed, Gwen’s condition has caused an explosive disagreement between her parents. Frank is fascinated by the clinical manifestations of Turner’s–a scientific interest that horrifies Paulette, who sees Gwen’s condition as nothing short of calamity.
As Christmas 1997 approaches, Frank, a prominent medical researcher, is on the brink of a big discovery when an old rival reappears. Billy’s secret life implodes, and Scott becomes obsessed with roads not taken. And Gwen, in her thirties, falls in love for the first time, a development the whole family views with alarm.
The Condition looks at the power of science and its profound limitations, the determining reality of biology and the power of individual will. Mostly, though, it is a story about parents and children and siblings: the people we love but didn’t chose–and in many cases, wouldn’t have; the complex and bewildering web of loyalties and resentments that take a lifetime to form.
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Tags: Book of the Week · Fiction
“Abu Ghraid will be remembered as America’s great shame” Michael Gawenda smh.com.au July 5 2008
Standard Operating Procedure is an utterly original collaboration by the writer Philip Gourevitch (We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families) and the film-maker Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War). They have produced the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib.Standard Operating Procedure reveals the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the haunting digital snapshots from Abu Ghraib prison that shocked the world - and simultaneously illuminates and alters forever our understanding of those images and the events they depict. Drawing on more than two hundred hours of Errol Morris’ startlingly frank and intimate interviews with Americans who served at Abu Ghraib and with some of their Iraqi prisoners, as well as on his own research, Philip Gourevitch has written a relentlessly surprising account of Iraq’s occupation from the inside-out - rendering vivid portraits of guards and prisoners ensnared in an appalling breakdown of command authority and moral order.
Gourevitch and Morris have crafted a non-fiction morality play that stands to endure as essential reading long after the current war in Iraq passes from the headlines. By taking us deep into the voices and characters of the men and women who lived the horror of Abu Ghraib, the authors force us, whatever our politics, to re-examine the pat explanations in which we have been offered - or sought - refuge, and to see afresh this watershed episode. Instead of a ‘few bad apples’, we are confronted with disturbingly ordinary young American men and women who have been dropped into something out of Dante’s Inferno.This is a book that makes you think, and makes you see - an essential contribution from two of our finest non-fiction artists working at the peak of their powers.
Further Reading
Slate Review
Guardian Review
New York Sun Review
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Tags: Non-Fiction · War
“Strange things can happen if you bump into an FBI profiler on the road” Keith Austen - smh.com.au July 5 2008.
From the bestselling author of Malestrom comes Michael MacConnell’s new novel - Splinter
Sarah Reilly just brought down one of America s worst serial killers. Her father, FBI legend Harry Reilly, was kidnapped during the investigation, and the man she loved was murdered. Refusing offers of extended leave, Sarah launches herself back into her work in the Boston FBI field office. But the murder of a child in California sees her and her new partner assigned to a special taskforce to investigate. It’s a high-profile case. The parents are famous, wealthy and, it seems, they are holding information back.
The media and public sympathy that initially was directed to them at their son s senseless murder has turned to suspicion. The whispers about their guilt are growing. Sarah is right in the middle, looking for the truth, and she isn t going to let PR spin doctors or the LAPD get in her way. Sarah, haunted by her past and faced with the murder of another young boy, is equally determined to make sure the killer is brought to justice.
Further Reading
smh.com.au Review
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“As I resigned myself to the fact that the latest Household Guide I’d written would be my last, I conceived in a flash the best idea ever. I rang Nancy and left a message. ‘Think of the title,’ I said. ‘How catchy does The Household Guide to Dying sound?’”
When Delia Bennet – author and domestic advice columnist – is diagnosed with cancer, she knows it’s time to get her house in order. After all, she’s got to secure the future for her husband, their two daughters and their five beloved chickens. But as she writes lists and makes plans, questions both large and small creep in. Should she divulge her best culinary secrets? Read her favourite novels one last time? Plan her daughters’ far-off weddings?
Complicating her dilemma is the matter of the past, and a remote country town where she fled as a pregnant teenager, only to leave broken-hearted eight years later.
Researching and writing her final Household Guide, Delia is forced to confront the pieces of herself she left behind. She learns what matters is not the past but the present – that the art of dying is all about truly living.
Fresh, witty, deeply moving – and a celebration of love, family and that place we call home – this unforgettable story will surprise and delight the reader until the very last page.
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Tags: Biography
At 150 years old, Gray’s Anatomy still sets the standard in medical textbooks, yet little has been written about its author, Henry Gray. Even less celebrated is Henry Carter, the illustrator who brought Gray’s groundbreaking anatomy text to life.
The Anatomist: a true story of Gray’s Anatomy explores the lives of these two men, balancing biographical chapters with the author’s own experience in the anatomy classroom, dissecting cadavers and marvelling at each new discovery with prose both lucid and arrestingly beautiful: ‘Like a pomegranate, whose leathery rind belies its jewel box interior, the kidney is spectacular inside.’
Using Carter’s diary entries, Hayes recreates an era when medical advances were rapidly changing the way people lived as well as challenging religious dogma, and people turned to science in hope of reconciling the two. Hayes finds emotional resonance in Carter’s longing to produce a work of lasting significance, as well as in his deep internal conflicts as a Protestant Dissenter.
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A foundling, an old book of dark fairy tales, a secret garden, an aristocratic family, a love denied, a mystery - The Forgotten Garden is a captivating, atmospheric and compulsively readable story of the past, secrets, family and memory from the international best-selling author Kate Morton.
Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra’s life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family. Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing fairytales written by Eliza Makepeace - the Victorian authoress who disappeared mysteriously in the early twentieth century - Cassandra takes her courage in both hands to follow in the footsteps of Nell on a quest to find out the truth about their history, their family and their past little knowing that in the process, she will also discover a new life for herself.
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Tags: Fiction
As featured in the Good Weekend - Malcolm Knox investigates the escalating Ice crisis in Australia.
Description
I don’t know in the time I’ve been a policeman, which is 41 years, of a greater scourge on the community. The physical and mental manifestations of ice are absolutely horrific. It has the potential to destroy generations.’ Former NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney
An act of violence while on crystal meth seems to burst boundaries; the perpetrator keeps on hitting and hitting, not knowing why, just going on beyond any purpose or restraint, repeating the action as mindlessly as playing cards or popping Sudafeds out of blister packs.’
From Scattered
Crystal methamphetamine. Crystal meth. Crystal. Ice. A drug that came out of nowhere and instantly turned things upside down: for users, their families, police, healthcare workers and victims of the random, hyper-violent crimes that are the mark of ice. Nearly 1 in 10 Australians have tried ice.
Scattered is the word coined by some users to describe the trance-like ferocity that can accompany an ice binge, escalating common crime to a terrifying level of violence. According to support workers on the front line, official statistics have yet to recognise that users have trebled over the last two years and hospital admissions for ice-related psychosis more than doubled.
Walkley award-winning journalist Malcolm Knox examines the ice problem in Australia from the points of view of users, dealers, police, lawyers, doctors, pharmacists and families affected by the drug. Each story he tells goes beyond the statistics and headlines to explore the human cost of ice and to consider its future in Australia.
About Malcolm Knox
Malcolm Knox is the author of three novels, Summerland , A Private Man , and most recently, Jamaica . Each has been published internationally. Malcolm was formerly literary editor of the Sydney Morning Herald , where he broke the Norma Khouri hoax story, for which he won a Walkley Award. He is also the author of Secrets of the Jury Room , a non-fiction account of his experience as a juror, and a history of the jury system. He lives in Sydney.
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Tags: Australia · Non-Fiction
As featured in the Good Weekend today The Tall Man is the Chloe Hooper’s second novel - and the real life tale of death and life on Palm Island.
This is the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell.
This is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hurley who chose to work in some of the toughest and wildest places in Australia, and of the struggle to bring him to trial.
Above all The Tall Man is a story in luminous detail of two worlds cashing - and a haunting moral puzzle that no reader will forget.
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Tags: Australia · Non-Fiction
