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Accounting
Accountants accept TASA outcome, saying it is the ultimate outcome rather than the journey that matters. ...
Financial planning
The FPA has been foremost in welcoming the Coalition’s breakthrough on the TASA legislation delivering planners a further 12 months’ exemption. ...
Financial planning
Planners will get a further 12 months relief on TASA changes as part of Government concessions to Coalition on the legislation. ...
Editorial
The appeals of the FPA for a further extension of the TASA implementation seemed to be falling on deaf ears, with the Assistant Treasurer, David Bradbury, seeming determi...
Financial planning
The Federal Opposition will fight for changes to the TASA timetable in Parliament, but will revisit the issue post-election if the Parliamentary battle fails....
Financial planning
The Federal Government has bowed to industry pressure by allowing planners breathing space on TASA transition....
Accounting
FPA and AFA make last-ditch call for financial planner elements of TASA bill to be removed to allow appropriate review....
Financial planning
Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) associations are celebrating another win after the Federal Government quietly removed proposals to restrict related party transact...
Policy & Regulation
Govt appears unmoved by industry efforts to extract a further extension of the TASA arrangements....
Financial planning
The inclusion of specific funding for the Tax Practitioners Board sees the FPA writing to the Government for another extension....
Superannuation
The Shadow Assistant Treasurer, Senator Mathias Cormann, says a Coalition Government won’t keep Shorten’s super charter group....
Editorial
Financial planners are going to be fundamentally affected by the Tax Agent Services Act but, as Cecilia Storniolo explains, there will be many unanswered questions almost...
Editorial
The Government claims it has delivered on the Productivity Commission’s default fund recommendations, but Mike Taylor writes that the devil is in the detail....
Superannuation
The Federal Opposition has questioned the motivations behind the Government's decision to fund an Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) push to encourage...
Financial planning
The Federal Government has received a mixed response to the financial services and superannuation initiatives evolving out of its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MY...
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