Ozzie! Ozzie! Ozzie! Run! Run! Run!
Come down to the Coffs Harbour Surf Life Saving Club tomorrow morning for the annual HQB Fun Run! This Friday, participants will enjoy a leisurely run, jog, walk, stroll or waddle around some of Coffs Harbour’s most beautiful beaches to support our local beach patrols. Come along to have a go yourself, or soak up […]
2018 – The year of the Baby
The team at HQB are excited to announce the early but safe arrival of Georgie Davis, both Mum and Bub are doing well. A second daughter for James & Ashlie and a little sister for Immogen and Henry. Georgie is the first of many babies due in 2018 for us at HQB Chartered Accountants and […]
Art for the win
On Friday the 24th of November, HQB Chartered Accountants along with others, sponsored ‘Art Goes to Court’ to celebrate the official opening of the Coffs Harbour Courthouse and to raise funds towards new artwork for the Coffs Harbour Gallery. A long time in the making, the night was quite extraordinary thanks to The friends of […]
L’Etape or Le Tap!
Over the last couple of months John Watson (of Fishburn Watson O’Brien) & I have been training intensely, riding up and down (ad nauseam) Bruxner and Ulong in preparation for the Australian edition of L’Etape. It’s a great cycling event held around the Snowy Mountains . Alas the weather was unkind on the day, the […]
Love is in the air
On Friday 6th October, one of our Senior Accountant Managers, Brad, married his beautiful wife Annalise at the North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens. Wishing you both a long, happy, fulfilling marriage together.
The 31st October is upon us all, Happy Halloween
Spiders and snakes and slime and scares, The 31st October is upon us all, Happy Halloween. But apart from Halloween, did you know that if you plan on lodging your own tax return the due date is 31 October? However, if you choose to lodge through a registered agent like HQB Chartered Accounts, this date […]
Art goes to Court!
If you’ve ever wanted to see what’s inside Coffs’ new courthouse without guilt or accusation then the time has arrived! The Friends of the Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery are taking ART to court and you are invited. HQB Chartered Accountants are proud sponsors of the evening, which will include live entertainment, music and drama performances […]
SMSF Property Insurance
Here at HQB Chartered Accountants, many of our clients have their own self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF). If this is you, we would like to raise some important points regarding audit issues around real property. Trustees of SMSF’s like to invest in property. As a result, most of the value of the fund is tied up […]
Capital Gains Tax – Main Residence Exemption
Luckily, capital gains tax does not apply to your home i.e. ‘main residence’, unlike other assets that you may sell. Unfortunately, as is usually the case with tax, the details can become mind boggling. If you acquire a new property that is to become your new main residence before you dispose of your existing main […]
Bubbles
Bubbles…… A word that normally evokes images of children having fun means something quite different in the business news. There always seems to be plenty of talk about a potential ‘bubble’ in the housing and/or share markets. So what does this mean? The most famous example of a bubble was ‘tulip mania’, a period in […]