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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