Questions are being asked about why the board of the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority has avoided direct engagement with key industry groups for more than...

Former tax agent Rudy Frugtniet has failed in his six year battle against the Tax Practitioners Board to overturn the termination of his registration....

The Tax Practitioner’s Board is offering grandfathered arrangements to cover tax financial advisers and others if it succeeds in convincing the Government to allow the re...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission says there is no evidence that accountants or tax financial advisers provide any better advice than ordinary financia...

The major accounting groups have united to mount a campaign aimed at clearing the way for the more effective delivery of advice by simplifying the multiple regulatory reg...

A dramatic spike in compliance action from tax agents has followed changes to the composition to the Tax Practitioners Board....

The Tax Practitioners Board has announced it will target 2,000 tax practitioners who were identified as being of the highest risk....

The Association of Financial Advisers has recommended a limited advisory role for the Tax Practitioners Board in the advice space while, at the same time, pointing to maj...

There is an urgent need to end the regulatory overlap between the Tax Practitioners Board and the Financial Adviser Standards and Ethics Authority, according to the Finan...

Providing advice with respect to Self-Managed Superannuation Funds is complex and something deserving deeper analysis than the current review of the Tax Practitioners Boa...

Will changes to default superannuation arrangements combine with changes to income streams serve to squeeze many advisers out of the superannuation market?...

Tax practitioners may find themselves facing a similar array of sanctions to that confronting financial planners including enforceable undertakings and permanent bannings...

Major accounting body, Chartered Accountants ANZ has argued for accountants to be given the right to give ‘incidental advice’ under a carve-out from the financial advice ...

The Tax Practitioners Board has revealed it is investigating the activities of 350 practitioners over suspected “high risk behaviour”....