FEDERAL BUDGET

Financial planning

An accounting body has urged the Government to stop using superannuation to plug Budget holes, and instead called for holistic tax reform....

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Superannuation

The Government has created election wriggle-room on super by signalling post-election consultation around its Budget changes....

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Superannuation

Extensive consultation will be needed between the Govt, the ATO and the financial services industry to overcome the technical intricacies of Budget implementation....

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Superannuation

Extensive coverage of the negative changes to super in the Budget missed the positive changes....

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Financial planning

Investors looking for tax-effective savings options other than superannuation may find investment bonds a useful alternative....

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Financial planning

Early analysis suggests the Budget changes to the TTR will simply see clients exiting the regime....

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Superannuation

The Government has both given and taken away from the super industry with a lower concessional contribution cap but a substantial restoration of the LISC for a Low Incom...

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Financial planning

The Financial Services has given the Federal Budget a mixed reaction, welcoming some changes and condemning others as misdirected....

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Financial planning

The Federal Budget will deliver key changes to the Transition to Retirement (TTR) settings....

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Financial planning

ASIC chairman, Greg Medcraft has received his wish with increased funding for the regulator to “combat misconduct in the financial services industry”....

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Policy & Regulation

The Government is set to increase the APRA levy to fund increased ASIC scrutiny of the banking industry....

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Policy & Regulation

Both a survey and a roundtable of superannation executives have revealed high levels of expectation that the Government will target upper income earners in the May Budget...

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Policy & Regulation

The Treasurer, Scott Morrison, has left little doubt that the super tax concessions will change in the Budget....

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Superannuation

The Federal Government is being urged to upgrade the status of unpaid superannuation guarantee entitlements and include them in the Fair Entitlements Guarantee regime....

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Editorial

The policy speculation around taxation and superannuation has become chaotic and the Government must bring the process back to order....

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