Vino Cammino Pty Ltd’s Post

So you can't laugh, but here we were thinking that as a new small business making a serious investment in (delicious) inventory, we'd at least have the cushion of a few years of big losses to carry over and soften the eventual tax burden when we turn a profit... That is until we sat down to do Vino Cammino's taxes and, after checking 5 times and chatting with other physical product business owners, realised that changes in inventory value count as assessable income. So for year 1, that means the full value of our inventory. This leads to 4 thoughts: 1. Wow we had amazing income for a new business actively selling for only two months of FY24. Must write a post about 1 neat trick to generate massive e-commerce income. 2. It is amazing how many basic business concepts a career in professional services and digital tech doesn't teach you. 3. It will be nice when we can afford an accountant, though I can already hear my accounting friends saying 'you can't afford not to have an accountant'. 4. Who hurt you ATO? Why so mean?

PS we've been a bit quiet on here lately while we were off finding more wine in Italy. At least those tax-deductible trips to Europe will actually have some deduction value now?

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