FRANKING CREDITS

Funds management

Despite market volatility, the dividend yield outlook for financial year 2023 sits at around 4.4 per cent for the ASX 200, in line with the long-term trend of around 4.5 ...

Funds management

With dividends coming under pressure, Australian investors who are seeking dividends could be disadvantaged by being too concentrated in a small number of sectors....

Policy & Regulation

A Senate committee is set to scrutinise the Albanese government's proposed franking credit tax changes....

Financial planning

Tax benefits make investment companies a better option to family trusts as they offer the best tax benefits to clients, apart from superannuation, according to HLB Mann J...

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Superannuation

Dividend income, with the help of franking credits, may not continue to be a reliable method of income for retirees, according to a panel....

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Superannuation

The Australian Labor Party might have wanted to get rid of franking credits at the last Federal Election but it is now being suggested that they should be embedded by sup...

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Policy & Regulation

If the Government applied the same logic to life/risk and grandfathered commissions as it did to refundable franking credits during the election, then it would be support...

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Policy & Regulation

Wilson Asset Management chairman, Geoff Wilson believes the Senate cross-benchers will help persuade a Labor Government to at least amend its policy on removing refundabl...

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Policy & Regulation

The Association of Independent Retirees is claiming the Federal Opposition simply did not do enough research on the unintended consequences of its franking credits, negat...

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Policy & Regulation

The Parliamentary Committee inquiry into the removal of franking credits has ended as it began – in disagreement between the major parties....

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Superannuation

The Labor Party’s confirmation on Friday that it would abolish franking credit rebates from 1 July 2019 discriminates against self-funded retirees, according to the SMSF ...

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Policy & Regulation

Another survey, this time by the Australian Foundation Investment Company, has unsurprisingly found that many investors are deeply concerned by Labor’s proposed franking ...

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Financial planning

Negative sentiment in the industry around Labor’s proposed franking dividends reform is still running high as Federal election predictions heat up, at least amongst advis...

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Financial planning

Those looking to restructure portfolios to maximise investment returns in the absence of franking credits should cast an eye offshore, according to a panel of investment ...

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Policy & Regulation

Opposition to Labor’s franking credit proposal is not dying down, with the Institute of Public Accountants today saying 95 per cent of its surveyed members did not suppor...

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