FEDERAL BUDGET

Financial planning

As expected, the Government has limited its Budget support for the financial services regulators....

Financial planning

The Government has sought to use the Federal Budget to close off what it describes as a tax loophole that has allowed investors to indulge in so-called ‘dividend washing’...

Financial planning

In a move that was flagged ahead of the Budget and will please some sections of the financial services industry, the Government has moved to make deferred lifetime annuit...

Financial planning

The expected 2013 Budget cuts to the Public Service may encompass APRA and ASIC....

Superannuation

Industry broadly welcomes Government’s decision to include contribution cap rise for over-60s in Budget....

Editorial

With the Federal Budget, end of financial year and Federal Election looming, the financial planning industry is still facing a number of critical legislative loose ends. ...

Financial planning

The financial services industry is bracing itself for Budget nasties as Treasury summons organisations for Friday talks....

Editorial

At first blush the Federal Government’s proposal for the establishment of a Council of Superannuation Custodians capable of guiding and advising on underlying policy seem...

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that it is passing strange that the Government has allowed a debate around the super taxes for upper income earners when it has failed to implement a v...

Superannuation

Australia Institute head calls for Treasury to reveal costs of super versus pension savings....

Superannuation

Hockey and Cormann claim there are no guarantees the Government won’t make further changes to super in the May Budget....

Superannuation

AFA president Michael Nowak is calling for an amnesty on changes to super in next month’s Federal Budget in order to restore consumer confidence in the retirement system....

Superannuation

Higher superannuation taxes for upper income earners may not be the only thing contained in the Federal Budget....

Editorial

Few people in the financial planning industry will have failed to notice, via draft legislation released by the Treasury, that the Federal Government has delivered what w...

Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that if the Federal Government imposes changes to the superannuation tax regime in the May Budget, it may take an entire Parliamentary term before a Co...

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