"Building Your Wealth", written by tax expert Peter McDonald in consultation with tax and superannuation specialists Barbara Smith, AM and Dr Ed Koken, is a book of step-by-step wealth creation strategies that anyone can follow. Written in an easy-to-understand style and with tips, traps, strategies and checklists to help you maximise the return on your investments, minimise the tax you pay and reduce the effect of any unforeseen circumstances, "Building Your Wealth" will show you how to secure a financially independent future. Investors and business owners, as well as tax accountants and financial planners looking to pass information on to clients, will find "Building Your Wealth" a valuable source of practical wealth creation and tax minimisation strategies. This title includes topics that cover: buying a business and how to operate a business effectively; tax-effective business structures and how to minimise business risk; salary packaging to increase your disposable income and minimise tax; protecting your assets; wealth creation through property and investments; and, superannuation and estate planning.

About the Author

Peter, Barbara and Ed have over 60 years of tax knowledge and experience combined. For the past 17 years, Peter McDonald has been informing taxpayers and protecting their rights, with 12 of those years spent as the National Director of Taxpayers Australia Inc. As a leading tax expert, he has represented taxpayers at the highest level of government, Treasury and the Tax Office, and is also a media commentator. He has written many books on tax, including the Taxpayers' Guide from 1993 to 2005. Barbara and Ed are experts in self-managed superannuation funds, as well as retirement planning, and are prolific authors in these and other areas.