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Superannuation

Senior super fund officials call for end to tinkering and a bipartisan approach to super policy....

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Superannuation

ASFA supports the ATO levying SMSFs to cover compliance costs but insists on transparency of process....

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Superannuation

With constant regulatory change impacting on the superannuation sector, financial planners are finding it difficult to focus on clients’ retirement needs, writes Bela Moo...

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Superannuation

Specialist barrister Noel Davis explains the ramifications of the latest AAT decision relating to excess contributions and why trustees, members and employers should all ...

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Editorial

Mike Taylor writes that if the Federal Government imposes changes to the superannuation tax regime in the May Budget, it may take an entire Parliamentary term before a Co...

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Superannuation

The benefit of franking credits in an SMSF cannot be underestimated, especially when the fund is in pension phase, writes Graeme Colley. ...

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Accounting

This week’s APESB board meeting looms as a crucial moment in the APES 230 debate....

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Superannuation

Daniel Butler and Nathan Papson note that changing an existing non-reversionary defined benefit pension to be reversionary may give rise to certain issues....

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Financial planning

The Financial Services Council has cited the opposition of key Labor figures to reinforce its case for the Governnment to stop tinkering with super....

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Superannuation

Banks are receiving numerous calls from customers anxious about the Government’s proposed changes to superannuation....

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Superannuation

ASFA’s pre-Budget submission questions underlying Treasury assumptions being used to justify altering super taxes....

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Superannuation

Coalition urges industry to help stop Government’s super tax changes before they occur because there are no guarantees post-Budget....

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Financial planning

The Government has lowered the minimum amount required to enter its venture capital program to $5 million, among other changes. ...

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Superannuation

Nicholas Ali describes the rules around SMSFs claiming the exempt current pension income where the trustees have not met the minimum pension payment standards. ...

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Accounting

The IPA has restated its intention to over-ride APES 230 while accountants remain concerned that the APESB is not moving on the issue....

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