>> Should get Lattice / Zatek to 'split' it cost-wise - must be possible...
>> Alternatively, quote a tax number as it certainly qualifies as an 'Aid to
>> manufacture'
>
>I wish!  Unfortunately, I'm just a hobbyist so, unless there's something
>I've been missing all these years, I can't avoid all this sales tax.
>Plus I don't know any good (creative?) accountants/tax lawyers...

Hey - if you ever make even $2 from the sale of any part of your work,
then you qualify as a business and therefore can claim lots of
deductions and you are entitled to a sales tax number.

Even if you don't make a profit over the course of 7 years then you can
still be earning income from your labours (no pun) and if you ever
buy any parts/tools then these qualify as 'aids to manufacture'...

If you are comfortable with engineering then you should be able to
understand the tax act - hard to believe but its true, actually the
tax act is more like bad programming by a team of people that never
shared a social life - or understood the real world !

Rgds

Mike
Perth, Western Australia



Some say there is no magic but, all things begin with thought then it becomes
academic, then some poor slob works out a practical way to implement all that
theory, this is called Engineering - for most people another form of magic.
                                                                       Massen