The major sections of a Trust Tax Return:




Business income and expenses


Income

Primary - use this section if you are a primary producer i.e. a farmer or miner.

Other Business Income - Usually income is reported against this label.


There are separate reporting fields for - 

Gross payments where ABN not quoted

Gross payments subject to foreign resident withholding (excluding capital gains)

Assessable government industry payments.

Note - if you use the LodgeiT Classifer, then income items will classify to the correct fields.



Expenses

 Note - if you use the LodgeiT Classifer, then expense items will classify to the correct fields.


Capital Gains


Personal Services Income (PSI)

Depreciation

Non-business related depreciation items in the Trust Tax Return



Tax Offsets


Dividends

Reporting Partnership, Interest & Dividend Income, Capital Gains and Rentals For Trust Tax Form - This article assists the user in understanding how to report these facts given that LodgeiT requires separate tax facts. Values from the accounting system used to facilitate the import are not used as taxable values.The reason is that the taxable values may be different and also, there may be credits associated with the taxable values that are not included in the financial statements. i.e. TFN credits associated with interest & franking credits associated with dividends.


Interest

Reporting Partnership, Interest & Dividend Income, Capital Gains and Rentals For Trust Tax Form - This article assists the user in understanding how to report these facts given that LodgeiT requires separate tax facts. 

Values from the accounting system used to facilitate the import are not used as taxable values.The reason is that the taxable values may be different and also, there may be credits associated with the taxable values that are not included in the financial statements. i.e. TFN credits associated with interest & franking credits associated with dividends.


"Difference" in Interest income for Trust. The difference is calused by the fact that the LodgeiT system requires the taxable interest to be reported. Then if there is a difference between taxable and accounting interest values, this difference is reflected in the reconcilation section


How to handle the reporting of interest given that the accounting interest may well be different to the tax interest


Partnerships

Trusts

Demonstrates how to handle the reporting of trust income given that the accounting income may well be different to the tax income