TAXATION

Financial planning

There are divergent views, but Barry Lambert believes licensing may mean planners will have to figure out how to stop accountants from taking their clients....

Superannuation

SPAA welcomes changes to the tax treatment of non-reversionary pensions....

Editorial

Financial planners may have won something of a victory in terms of TASA implementation, but the Financial Services Council’s Cecilia Storniolo writes that those impacted ...

Superannuation

AMP’s Philip La Greca provides a checklist for taking on an existing SMSF client....

Superannuation

Liberal MP Paul Fletcher has hit out at the Labor Government for the current lack of public confidence in Australia’s superannuation system. . ...

Life/Risk

New measures introduced in the 2013 Budget will have an important flow-on effect on insurance in super, writes David Glen. ...

Superannuation

Those hardest hit by the $100,000 limit on the pension income tax exemption may well be those left behind after the death of an SMSF pensioner, according to Bryce Figot a...

Superannuation

The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has welcomed the passage of amendments to allow refunding of excess concessional contributions, but says it should...

Superannuation

SPAA welcomes excess concessional contributions amendments...

Superannuation

The methodology used to measure superannuation tax concessions is "fatally flawed", according to SPAA's Andrea Slattery....

Superannuation

Super association claims tax concessions undermine super system ...

Financial planning

An audit report confirms that getting a review of adverse debt relief from the ATO is possible, but only if you read the fine print....

Superannuation

Graeme Colley warns some business owners who are nearing retirement fail to understand the complexity surrounding the eligibility criteria for CGT concessions and end up ...

Policy & Regulation

In the lead-up to tax time, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is warning taxpayers about new and complex tax avoidance schemes offering people financial security....

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...

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MARKET INSIGHTS

So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...

6 months ago

Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...

6 months ago

Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...

8 months ago

The RBA has handed down its much-anticipated rate decision, following widespread expectations of a close call....

3 weeks 5 days ago

Despite the financial adviser exam being rooted in ethics, two professional year advisers believe the lack of support and transparency from the regulator around the exam ...

2 weeks 3 days ago

ASIC has banned two advisers from the same advice firm for giving clients inappropriate superannuation advice that was not in their best interests. ...

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