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Superannuation

As superannuation governance increases in complexity, finding common ground between insurance policy and practice is becoming a near-impossible dream, writes Dimitri Diam...

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Editorial

If financial planners were given a choice between the model underpinning the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal and that underpinning the Financial Ombudsman Service, wha...

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Financial planning

Actuaries Institute recommends creation of commission to oversee financial systems policy and decide on policy conflicts....

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Accounting

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is pushing all taxpayers with offshore assets to declare their interests before it starts a global clampdown on tax evasion....

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Superannuation

While the quantum of overseas shares held in SMSFs has been increasing, it is still miniscule as a percentage of total SMSF assets. ...

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Superannuation

Slater & Gordon has launched a campaign to encourage “ordinary Australians” to track down lost super....

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Policy & Regulation

New legislation that empowers the tax office to hand out reformist penalties to SMSF trustees who inadvertently break the law has been praised by SPAA....

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Superannuation

SPAA has argued the self-managed super fund levy could come down substantially after recent government measures saw the clearing of the tax amendments backlog....

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Superannuation

The FSC has warned that around 500,000 people could have their superannuation-related insurance impacted by lifting the lost-member super threshold to $6000....

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Superannuation

New legislation has lifted the penalty regime around illegal early release super schemes....

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Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office is cracking down on non-lodging self-managed super funds, declaring them as non-persons if they do not lodge two or more returns....

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Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will have stewardship of the SuperStream gateway network for two years, the Treasury has said. ...

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Superannuation

ASIC warns property spruikers to steer clear of SMSFs or risk action over providing unlicensed product advice. ...

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Policy & Regulation

The ATO has pointed to a $1 million penalty imposed by the Federal Court as a strong reason for agricultural MIS promoters to obey the rules. ...

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Superannuation

Government warned significant insurance benefits could be lost if the small account super threshold is lifted to $4000 and then $6000....

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