{"id":362,"date":"2020-02-19T20:57:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T20:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trakaccountants.com.au\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2020-02-19T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T21:01:19","slug":"ato-targets-lifestyle-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trakaccountants.com.au\/blog\/ato-targets-lifestyle-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"ATO targets \u2018lifestyle\u2019 assets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ATO has requested insurance policy information from 30 insurers for lifestyle assets such as yachts, thoroughbred horses, and fine arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The review, expected to <strong>impact 350,000 taxpayers<\/strong>, reaches from the 2015-16 to 2019-20 financial years, revealing assets that previously may not have been disclosed or underreporting of income. \u201cIf a taxpayer is reporting a taxable income of $70,000 to us but we know they own a three million dollar yacht then this is likely to raise some red flags,\u201d Deputy Commissioner Deborah Jenkins said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ATO is\nlooking for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>under-reporting of income and\nmismatches between lifestyle assets and reported income, <\/li><li>the purchase of assets in a\ncompany name but where those assets are used for private purposes (incorrect\nclaims or non-reporting of GST credits, FBT, Division 7A, capital gains tax),\nand <\/li><li>lifestyle assets purchased by\nself-managed superannuation funds that might breach the sole purpose test.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ATO has\nstated that the data matching will not result in automatic audits but will be\nreviewed by compliance officers to support the profiling of selected taxpayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ATO has requested insurance policy information from 30 insurers for lifestyle assets such as yachts, thoroughbred horses, and fine arts. 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