AUSTRALIAN TAXATION OFFICE

Editorial

Richard Edwards outlines some of the technical issues financial planners need to consider when talking to their clients about possible responses to market declines....

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Editorial

The Government has proposed retaining higher concessional contributions caps for those aged 50 or over, however Craig Day argues imposing eligibility criteria needs furth...

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Superannuation

Winding-up a SMSF can be challenging and needs care and attention....

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Superannuation

Sage HandiSoft partners with Auditflow to launch cloud-based audit product....

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Superannuation

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...

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Financial planning

The Government has announced the proposed new fee model to raise around $18 million to have the industry fund ASIC's market supervision activities....

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Superannuation

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...

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Superannuation

Peter Burgess takes a look at steps which need to be taken to ensure superannuation contributions are correctly allocated and classified for tax purposes....

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Financial planning

The Government’s changes to the ECT regime add to the compliance burden, despite the ATO doing the heavy lifting. ...

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Life/Risk

An insurance company has come up with an offering designed to fund challenges to ATO excess contributions assessments....

Superannuation

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...

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People & Products

Crowe Horwath has appointed goods and services tax (GST) practitioner, Jonathan Doy, as a principal in the Sydney Tax Advisory group....

Financial planning

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...

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Policy & Regulation

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...

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Financial planning

The latest data reveals corporate insolvencies are still being driven by debts incurred during the GFC....

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