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Financial planning

There are divergent views, but Barry Lambert believes licensing may mean planners will have to figure out how to stop accountants from taking their clients....

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Superannuation

SPAA welcomes changes to the tax treatment of non-reversionary pensions....

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Editorial

Financial planners may have won something of a victory in terms of TASA implementation, but the Financial Services Council’s Cecilia Storniolo writes that those impacted ...

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Superannuation

AMP’s Philip La Greca provides a checklist for taking on an existing SMSF client....

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Superannuation

Liberal MP Paul Fletcher has hit out at the Labor Government for the current lack of public confidence in Australia’s superannuation system. . ...

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Life/Risk

New measures introduced in the 2013 Budget will have an important flow-on effect on insurance in super, writes David Glen. ...

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Superannuation

Those hardest hit by the $100,000 limit on the pension income tax exemption may well be those left behind after the death of an SMSF pensioner, according to Bryce Figot a...

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Superannuation

The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA) has welcomed the passage of amendments to allow refunding of excess concessional contributions, but says it should...

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Superannuation

SPAA welcomes excess concessional contributions amendments...

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Superannuation

The methodology used to measure superannuation tax concessions is "fatally flawed", according to SPAA's Andrea Slattery....

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Superannuation

Super association claims tax concessions undermine super system ...

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Financial planning

An audit report confirms that getting a review of adverse debt relief from the ATO is possible, but only if you read the fine print....

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Superannuation

Graeme Colley warns some business owners who are nearing retirement fail to understand the complexity surrounding the eligibility criteria for CGT concessions and end up ...

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Policy & Regulation

In the lead-up to tax time, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is warning taxpayers about new and complex tax avoidance schemes offering people financial security....

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Superannuation

The Shadow Minister for Financial Services, Mathias Cormann, has indicated the Federal Opposition would revisit concessional contribution cap limits should it win the upc...

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