The Federal Government has received a mixed response to the financial services and superannuation initiatives evolving out of its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MY...
SPAA's technical director Peter Burgess explains how a recent decision by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) affects breaches of non-concessional contribution cap....
The Self Managed Super Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) will celebrate its 10th anniversary next year, marking the occasion at its national conference set d...
Australian SMSFs should be able to receive superannuation transfers from New Zealand, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA)....
SPAA urges Govt not to exclude SMSFs from proposed trans-Tasman super regime....
The ATO has backed a SPAA assessment that illegal early release schemes involving SMSFs are declining....
The Australian Taxation Office is the right regulatory body to oversee the SMSF sector, according to SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australia chief executive Andrea S...
Ever since the Trio Capital scandal, the message has been clear: SMSFs are on their own and defenceless against fraud. But as Andrea Slattery explains, SMSFs indeed have ...
SPAA strongly rejects suggestions SMSFs should be pushed into APRA jurisdiction....
The prospect of further Government changes to superannuation and the removal of tax breaks currently in place for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) is unthinkable, accordi...
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has indicated that if a share order is executed in two 'parcels' due to market conditions it will still be treated as a single acquir...
Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' Association warns Government against further superannuation tinkering to bolster its promised Budget surplus....
The ATO has reconfirmed that interest payments are not an essential feature of a loan, potentially opening the door for zero-interest related party loans to self-managed ...
Former Count Financial managing director Andrew Gale has joined specialist corporate advisers Chase Corporate Advisory as executive director....
SPAA has welcomed the proposed penalty system changes for SMSFs, saying trustees who break the rules will be treated more equitably....
Interesting. Would be good to know the details of the StrategyOne deal....
It’s astonishing to see the FAAA now pushing for more advisers by courting "career changers" and international recruits,...
increased professionalism within the industry - shouldn't that say, FAR register almost halving in the last 24 months he...