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FEDERAL BUDGET
Superannuation
The Government has both given and taken away from the super industry with a lower concessional contribution cap but a substantial restoration of the LISC for a Low Incom...
Financial planning
The Financial Services has given the Federal Budget a mixed reaction, welcoming some changes and condemning others as misdirected....
Financial planning
The Federal Budget will deliver key changes to the Transition to Retirement (TTR) settings....
Financial planning
ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft has received his wish with increased funding for the regulator to “combat misconduct in the financial services industry”....
Policy & Regulation
The Government is set to increase the APRA levy to fund increased ASIC scrutiny of the banking industry....
Policy & Regulation
Both a survey and a roundtable of superannation executives have revealed high levels of expectation that the Government will target upper income earners in the May Budget...
Policy & Regulation
The Treasurer, Scott Morrison, has left little doubt that the super tax concessions will change in the Budget....
Superannuation
The Federal Government is being urged to upgrade the status of unpaid superannuation guarantee entitlements and include them in the Fair Entitlements Guarantee regime....
Editorial
The policy speculation around taxation and superannuation has become chaotic and the Government must bring the process back to order....
Superannuation
Morrison warned to distinguish between today’s reality and the legacy issues which gave rise to estate planning opportunities within super....
Superannuation
Federal Treasurer, Scott Morrison, has confirmed substantial Budget changes to the superannuation tax regime with tighter targeting of concessions....
Policy & Regulation
The Financial Services Council wants the States to live up to their original GST obligations by removing inefficient taxes, particularly those applying to life insurance....
Financial planning
The Federal Budget’s focus on small business boosted business confidence by 9.6 points in May but confidence levels remain volatile and dependent on events....
Superannuation
Federal Treasurer, Joe Hockey has reiterated the Government's vow of now changes to super during the life of the current Parliament....
Accounting
Before making big purchases small business owners need to determine whether they are eligible for the $20,000 asset write-off announced in the Federal Budget, the IPA say...
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Podcast
My view is that after 2026 there will be quite a bit less than 10,000 'advisers' (investment advisers) and less than 100...
Dugald makes a great point that not everyone's definition of green is the same and gives a good example. Funds have bee...
How did they get the AFSL in the first place? Given the green light by ASIC. This is terrible example of ASIC's incompet...