Re: [SiliconBeach] Capital Gains Tax

2011-10-08 Thread Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli
Derek Sivers (http://sivers.org/) put his company CD Baby into a charity fund before selling it. Because of the nature of the fund, he only pays tax on the money the fund gives him every year. When he dies, everything goes to a charity. *Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli http://aymeric.gaurat.net Working on

Re: [SiliconBeach] Re: Capital Gains Tax

2011-10-08 Thread Geoff McQueen
Or move to New Zealand. No CGT there. On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 18:20, Jeromy Evans jeromyev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Adam, Unfortunately I can't comment on a major capital event, but the basics are: - CGT is generally assessed in the year the capital event occurred - it's assessed at your

Re: [SiliconBeach] Capital Gains Tax

2011-10-08 Thread Andrew Rogers
Adam, 1. Any form of capital gain receives the 50% capital gains tax reduction regardless of form (shares, investment property, private company etc) 2. In addition to this there is a further 50% small business capital gains tax reduction provided that your individual share of the proceeds of

Re: [SiliconBeach] Business brokers in Sydney

2011-10-08 Thread Andrew Rogers
Matt, A few that operate (or have, not entirely sure if all of these below are still active) in the IT/online space: http://www.obeliskcapital.com.au/ http://www.lexiconpartners.com.au http://www.southofmarket.com.au/ http://www.integralcapital.com.au/ http://www.stylequity.com/

[SiliconBeach] Silicon Valley Tour Offer

2011-10-08 Thread Mick Liubinskas (Pollenizer)
Hi all, I got an email from Bjorn from the Startup Genome project with an offer for an organised, paid tour of Silicon Valley. Let me know if you're keen and we can get a $500 discount. Details; http://blackbox.vc/connect Sasha Fadi on cc. are organizing an awesome trip for some of our

[SiliconBeach] belated intro

2011-10-08 Thread Daniel May
Hi, I've been on this list since Mar when I put out a call for attendees to http://melbourne.launch48.com. It's a terrific resource, with a community that always provides interesting questions, answers and comments. I'm always wondering what the next email will bring ;) I keep meaning to

[SiliconBeach] Launch48 in Sydney (Oct 28-30)

2011-10-08 Thread Daniel May
Hi, While we were organising http://melbourne.launch48.com startup weekend in April, we got calls to do one in Sydney. After a successful Melbourne event, we're running http://sydney.launch48.com on Oct 28-30. A big thanks to Atlassian for hosting the event. - Pitch, build launch an online

[SiliconBeach] Re: Capital Gains Tax

2011-10-08 Thread Jeromy Evans
In addition to Andrew's awesome info: On Oct 8, 9:24 pm, Andrew Rogers andrew.rog...@anchor.com.au wrote: ... To me, trusts are a difficult one for most startups to justify though, you generally need to set them up at the time you're starting the business, if you're a startup in IT you're