Richard Edwards outlines some of the technical issues financial planners need to consider when talking to their clients about possible responses to market declines....
The Government has proposed retaining higher concessional contributions caps for those aged 50 or over, however Craig Day argues imposing eligibility criteria needs furth...
Winding-up a SMSF can be challenging and needs care and attention....
Sage HandiSoft partners with Auditflow to launch cloud-based audit product....
There has been a growing interest in the use of strategies to acquire, subdivide, renovate or develop property using a self-managed super fund (SMSF). Aaron Dunn explains...
The Government has announced the proposed new fee model to raise around $18 million to have the industry fund ASIC's market supervision activities....
The Australian Taxation Office has indicated the two certainties in life - death and taxes - will become closely intertwined when it comes to super pensions. David Shirlo...
Peter Burgess takes a look at steps which need to be taken to ensure superannuation contributions are correctly allocated and classified for tax purposes....
The Government’s changes to the ECT regime add to the compliance burden, despite the ATO doing the heavy lifting. ...
An insurance company has come up with an offering designed to fund challenges to ATO excess contributions assessments....
A total number of almost 1,700 individuals and companies have been convicted on tax and superannuation offences in the 2010-11 financial year, according to the announceme...
Crowe Horwath has appointed goods and services tax (GST) practitioner, Jonathan Doy, as a principal in the Sydney Tax Advisory group....
Clients who run businesses should be extremely careful in classifying those they engage as contractors, as the wrong decision can result in many unfavourable outcomes, wr...
If a person can demonstrate they are a 'share trader' rather than a 'share investor', they will be allowed to claim a tax deduction for losses on the share market, accord...
The latest data reveals corporate insolvencies are still being driven by debts incurred during the GFC....
So shareholders lose a dividend plus have seen the erosion of value. Qantas decides to clawback remuneration from Alan ...
This is why I left my last position. There was no interest in giving the client quality time, it was all about bumping ...
So the Hayne Royal Commission has left us with this. What a sad day for the financial planning industry. Clearly most ...