AUSTRALIAN TAXATION OFFICE

Financial planning

The changes to the business tax system introduced last year has resulted in hundreds of planners being hit by rules designed to cut down on the alienation of personal ser...

Financial planning

Lump sum or pension reasonable benefit limit? Scarcity or abundance? What do you recommend to your clients in relation to superannuation? Grant Abbott puts it to the test...

Financial planning

Advisers should not sail too close to the wind when it comes to tax planning. At least that is the opinion of Kenneths Group director John Day who says it is im-portant ...

Financial planning

Three agricultural investment schemes and a feature movie proposal, totalling almost $2 million in investments, have been stopped by the ASIC in the last four weeks....

Financial planning

Most Australian women will have to rely on aged pensions when they retire because their superannuation fund balances are inadequate, according to a university study....

Policy & Regulation

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has won support for its crack-down on more than 1,600 investors who took advantage of tax breaks in schemes run by Budplan....

Financial planning

There is still a lingering perception among Australian investors that negative gearing has magical curing powers for their taxation ills. A combination of a culture of in...

Superannuation

Rules regarding membership, compliance and administration of self-managed superannuation funds (SMFs) are well on the way to being clarified....

Financial planning

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has fired the first shots in its war against what it calls "aggressive" tax planning strategies, which promises to become bloodier ov...

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