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Financial planning

The Productivity Commission is predicting one in four Australians will be aged 65 or more by 2044 - roughly twice as many as now - giving rise to significant economic and...

Superannuation

Statistics from the Australian Taxation office show that over 20 per cent of superannuation assets currently under management are within a self-managed superannuation fun...

Financial planning

Tribeca’s JUSTINE HARRIS answers your questions in depth....

Financial planning

Bridges Financial Services has won its long-running payroll tax dispute with the Western Australian Government, escaping a $500,000 tax bill in a decision that will come ...

Editorial

A strong majority of people working in the superannuation industry believe the Government’s co-contribution regime has been a success....

Editorial

Should the Federal Government cut the taxes applying to superannuation? In the strongest response to any question asked in the survey, more than 97 per cent of respondent...

Financial planning

The Australian Taxation Office has moved to reinforce with employers their obligations under the new choice of fund regime, particularly their handling of the new choice ...

Financial planning

In a harbinger of what is expected to be a bumper year for timber schemes, Northern Tropical Timbers expects to launch a new project in September after achieving its sale...

Policy & Regulation

The Prime Minister, John Howard has ruled out further cuts to the taxation regime applying to superannuation during the life of the current Parliament...

Superannuation

The Australian Taxation Office is making sure that the trustees of self-managed superannuation funds are left in no doubt about their obligations with respect to the owne...

Financial planning

The advent of choice of superannuation fund and the continued growth in do-it-yourself superannuation is likely to see a leakage of funds out of the retail managed funds ...

Financial planning

The Australian Taxation Office has been urged to get its administration of the tax file numbering system applying to superannuation funds and trusts up to the same standa...

Superannuation

No one has been particularly surprised at the recent clash which has erupted between industry and retail super funds over the issue of choice, but the DIY super sector ha...

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