Financial planners and property investors will need to pay closer attention to the Federal Government’s Capital Gains Tax regime, with an Australian National Audit Office...
The Federal Government has released revised exposure draft legislation, which outlines the final stages of reforms for the tax treatment of financial arrangements....
The introduction of the Tax Law Amendments (Simplified Superannuation) Bill into Parliament has drawn mixed reactions from the financial services industry....
Information is power and in today’s complex and sophisticated business world our regulators are more often turning to the legislative search and access powers to collect ...
Australians are now one of the world’s largest spenders, due to the property market boom, but are continuing to outlay more than they are able to earn, according to direc...
After you’ve clocked up a few years in the workforce, those fantasies about driving off into the sunset seem to come up a lot more frequently. But if the federal governme...
Year-end tax planning is important for individuals and businesses at all levels. Apart from the traditional approach - that is deferring income and advancing deductions w...
The 2005 full year results for AMP have shown a 24 per cent increase in underlying contributions, the organisation’s main profitability measure which removes investment m...
Hopes that the superannuation contributions tax will be scrapped in the next budget have been dampened, with Federal Treasurer Peter Costello today stating a removal of t...
The new choice of superannuation fund regime has failed to accelerate the growth of self-managed superannuation funds....
When planning for a transition to retirement, advisers now have another strategy for consideration. This new opportunity came about when the Federal Government added a ne...
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia has used its pre-budget submission for the next financial year to again call for the complete abolishment of the 15 p...
A recent Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) industry forum heard compelling evidence as to why product rationalisation is an issue that will increasingl...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...
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....