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Tax reform is likely to wipe $50 million off the value of new business at AMP Life, AMP Finan-cial Services managing director Andrew Mohl has told a Merrill Lynch confere...

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Legislation covering the Ralph reforms will simply add to the mess created by the existing tax act, says its author John Ralph....

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Well it’s that time of year again. I know the season’s changed when my dear old friends at the Venezuelan Yak Milk Yoghurt farm dust of their $20 gold leaf embossed pros...

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This year is shaping up to produce another bumper crop of tax-effective invest-ments, with most focusing on rural industries....

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With any strategy or transaction undertaken by a financial adviser on behalf of a client, consideration must be given to the anti-avoidance rules of the Income Tax Assess...

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Financial planners are in the midst of a tax revolution. The revolution means that a tax-effective structure or strategy used by a financial planner or accountant six mon...

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The days of frenzied buying of tax effective agricultural schemes in mid June will soon be over, thanks to the Ralph tax crackdown announced earlier this month....

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Losing a loved one is a tragic thing, paying tax is a disaster....

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The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) is auditing several life companies as its review of the life insurance taxation regime steps up a gear....

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Content Capital, one of the two companies granted a license to raise up to $20 mil-lion in concessional capital for investments in films, has announced its first project....

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Australians overwhelmingly support compulsory superannuation, but are furious at they way it is taxed and confused at how the system works, according to ASFA re-search....

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When it comes to business tax reform most of the headlines have been about capital gains tax (CGT) reform, accelerated depreciation and the lower corporate tax proposal....

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