Taking advantage of the potential tax benefits of buying property through a SMSF, a growing number of South Australians are turning to property for their retirement savin...
Assets constituting trading stock were once the exception to the rule, as they did not have to be treated according to the CGT provisions. DBA Lawyers' Bryce Figot and Na...
The asset segregation approach in volatile times could provide a number of tax benefits. The SMSF Academy’s Aaron Dunn explains....
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has positioned a taskforce to crack down on structured financial products offering franking credits....
ATO reveals 70 per cent of superannuation fund members hit by ECT problems last financial year would have received refunds under the new regime....
The Auditor-General has warned that the ATO's interpretive decisions on SMSFs carry less legal weight than interpretive decisions on tax matters....
The dust has well and truly settled on the Federal Budget but, as Liz Westover writes, the Government needs to accept that its actions have served to confuse Australians ...
ASFA suggests money to fund the ATO on Stronger Super may not meet cost/benefit benchmarks....
The time has come for a total rethink about how investors are looked after when there is a 'Trio Capital', according to SPAA's Peter Burgess....
Treasury officials are continuing to apportion blame to financial planners for some Trio Capital losses....
John Kelly outlines new rules regarding insurance, and how they affect SMSFs when it comes to insuring collectibles and personal-use assets....
The benefits associated with utilising a self-managed super fund come with legal responsibilities and getting it wrong can be criminal, warns Matthew McKee....
The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia has welcomed an Australian Taxation Office ruling clarifying the status of borrowing arrangements around single assets....
Product providers should be responsible for funding a last resort compensation scheme, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia....
One of the headline announcements in the 2012-13 Federal Budget affecting SMSFs was regarding contribution caps. Dan Butler and Nathan Papson explore this announcement, a...
This verdict highlights something deeply wrong and rotten at the heart of the FSCP. We are witnessing a heavy-handed, op...
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...