AUSTRALIAN TAXATION OFFICE

Policy & Regulation

STEP Australia has welcomed new guidelines on capital gains tax announced by the Australian Taxation Office as a way to ‘simplify and clarify’ the process of deceased est...

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Policy & Regulation

CPA Australia wants the Tax Practitioners Board to be given more power including the ability to impose banning orders....

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Policy & Regulation

The Tax Practitioner’s Board has issued a warning that people who use unregistered tax agents do not receive safe harbour protections when things go wrong....

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has warned that super fund members need to ensure they’re not throwing letters from their funds in the bin or marking emails as spam, as that cou...

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Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office has warned compensation payments from superannuation funds in the fallout of the Banking Royal Commission could have both tax and super imp...

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Financial planning

Individuals are being advised not to be too hasty with filing their tax returns early as there are additional complexities in play this year. ...

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SMSF

Self-managed superannuation funds both outperformed other super fund options and saw a decrease in operational costs, according to the latest statistics from the Australi...

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Policy & Regulation

Labor has been accused of spreading “significant misinformation” on accountants’ fees for providing tax advice, with a major industry body saying that its figures on fees...

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Policy & Regulation

The Tax Practitioners Board has terminated the tax agent registrations of Wollongong tax agent for overclaiming expenses on behalf of their clients. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The financial services industry has delivered the Budget a muted response in circumstances where the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, had announced most of the Government’s fi...

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Policy & Regulation

Big accounting group CPA Australia has warned the Government against seeking to impose a full industry funding model for the Tax Practitioners Board when accountants are ...

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Superannuation

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has upheld a decision to refuse Superannuation Warehouse’s application for a limited Australian financial services licence, after its ...

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Policy & Regulation

The Australian Taxation Office has said that it’s already referred 37 SMSF auditors to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission since last June, as part of th...

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Superannuation

AMP Limited has acknowledged a multi-million impact flowing from the Government’s legislative changes to superannuation including transferring 370,000 low balance account...

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Superannuation

Industry Super Australia has found that the average Australian worker misses out on $12,475 from their super balance as a result of legislation allowing infrequent paymen...

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Simon

Who get's the $10M? Where does the money go?? Might it end up in the CSLR to financially assist duped investors??? ...

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Squeaky'21

My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...

1 week 4 days ago
Jason Warlond

Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...

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AustralianSuper and Australian Retirement Trust have posted the financial results for the 2022–23 financial year for their combined 5.3 million members....

9 months 2 weeks ago

A $34 billion fund has come out on top with a 13.3 per cent return in the last 12 months, beating out mega funds like Australian Retirement Trust and Aware Super. ...

9 months ago

The verdict in the class action case against AMP Financial Planning has been delivered in the Federal Court by Justice Moshinsky....

9 months 2 weeks ago