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Usa tax brief for australian expats expat tax services. If the shares you inherited where purchased before september 1985, you are deemed to have acquired the shares on the date of the persons death, and your cost base is the market price of the shares on this day. Tax effects on the pricing of australian stock index futures. Bonus shares are extra shares you receive for shares you already hold in a company.
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