All the details: The $20,000 instant asset tax write-off explained
The sweetener in this year’s budget for SMEs was undoubtedly the short-term accelerated depreciation write-off up to $20,000.
Terry Hayes is the editor-in-chief of tax news reporting at Thomson Reuters, a leading Australian provider of tax, accounting and legal information solutions.
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