The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has prosecuted more than 1,500 people for tax and superannuation offences so far this financial year....
The Australian Taxation Office has warned individuals and businesses who use New Zealand foreign trusts while earning their income from Australia that such arrangements a...
The ATO has been warned some superannuation funds will struggle to be ready to meet changes in rollover requirements....
The Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association has acknowledged it had been lobbying for the two-year delay in the commencement data of the concessional contribut...
Due to growing costs and increasing workload, smaller accounting practices might wish to outsource SMSF administration, writes Olivia Long....
Towers Watson warns the Government on a Budget which injects more complexity into superannuation....
David Barrett briefly addresses two major challenges that loom for financial advisers: providing the strategic advice associated with a potential recommendation for a sup...
John Kelly outlines the new rules regarding insurance and how they affect SMSFs when it comes to insuring collectibles and personal use assets....
Superannuation is usually the biggest talking point for most advisers during tax season. Concessional contribution caps will certainly be top of mind this year given the ...
Although clients’ tax issues are the main focus for financial advisers at this time of year, as business owners and employers they also need to ensure enough time is set ...
Cecile Apolinario explains the key issues and steps trustees need to address when starting a pension for a SMSF member....
Mike Taylor reports that submissions to the Productivity Commission review of default superannuation funds under modern awards have raised important questions about the r...
SMSFs with less than $50,000 in assets pay around 7 per cent per year in operating costs, but due to the size of the average fund most pay less than 0.25 per cent....
The average annual operating expenses of running a self-managed super fund (SMSF) continues to trend down, but small funds are still incredibly costly, according to recen...
If auditors are, indeed, the eyes and ears of the regulators in the SMSF sector, Liz Westover writes that the new auditor registration regime will prove to be crucial as ...
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,...