Tax Effective Structure

Tax Effective Business Structure

Which one of the four main business structures is most tax effective?

It depends on each individual circumstance.

Besides choosing most tax effective structure you also need to examine other features of the business structure to meets your requirement such as: -

• Asset protection

• Income allocation/split

• Business agreements

• Meeting your legal requirements

Typically, costs and complexity increase as you move from a sole trader to a partnership to a company to a trust.

When starting a business, you may start as a sole trader and you can change structure as your business grows or changes.

But if you set up a right business structure from start, you would not need to go through hassle of changing business name, getting a new ABN, changing banking arrangements and etc later on.

The Comparison table shows the main features of business structures. Click the comparison hyperlink to see the differences.

Also click Advantages and Disadvantages for each business structures.

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