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Financial planning
A former mortgage broker has pleaded guilty to 10 charges of providing false loan applications to lenders totaling almost $3.8 million....
Financial planning
An Auditor-General’s report is unlikely to dampen financial services industry grumbling about how AUSTRAC is funded....
Financial planning
FPA chief executive Mark Rantall has written to all Federal Parliamentarians urging them not to simply wave through the TASA legislation....
Financial planning
It was not a formal valedictory but Financial Services Minister, Bill Shorten, used an FSC function to thank those involved in the FOFA and financial services policy chan...
Superannuation
AIST and ISN are calling for a clearer definition of the word 'advice’, as the current wording of TASA prohibits industry super funds from providing intra-fund advice. ...
Financial planning
The Federal Opposition will fight for changes to the TASA timetable in Parliament, but will revisit the issue post-election if the Parliamentary battle fails....
Financial planning
The financial planning industry is not expecting a bipartisan report from the Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) reviewing the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA) legislation...
Superannuation
The Shadow Minister for Financial Services, Mathias Cormann, has indicated the Federal Opposition would revisit concessional contribution cap limits should it win the upc...
Financial planning
FPA points to lack of regulatory information as reason for planner unpreparedness for FOFA. ...
Financial planning
The FPA has written to all members of Parliament stressing the level of unknowns impacting planners in the TASA bill....
Superannuation
The Federal Government has finalised the trans-Tasman retirement savings portability scheme....
Funds management
The FSC has opposed further regulation of licensed trustee companies following proposals put forward by CAMAC with regards to charitable trusts....
Funds management
ASIC consultation brings ASX platform a step closer but narrows its focus....
Financial planning
Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) associations are celebrating another win after the Federal Government quietly removed proposals to restrict related party transact...
Financial planning
The FPA is calling for Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) amendments to be sent off to a committee and possibly deferred for another six to 12 months, following the tabling of...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...