FEDERAL BUDGET

Financial planning

An accounting body has urged the Government to stop using superannuation to plug Budget holes, and instead called for holistic tax reform....

Superannuation

The Government has created election wriggle-room on super by signalling post-election consultation around its Budget changes....

Superannuation

Extensive consultation will be needed between the Govt, the ATO and the financial services industry to overcome the technical intricacies of Budget implementation....

Superannuation

Extensive coverage of the negative changes to super in the Budget missed the positive changes....

Financial planning

Investors looking for tax-effective savings options other than superannuation may find investment bonds a useful alternative....

Financial planning

Early analysis suggests the Budget changes to the TTR will simply see clients exiting the regime....

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....

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