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Google to pay ATO $481.5m

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... raking in a nice $1.25 billion to bolster the budget. "Thanks to the efforts of our ATO officers under the Tax Avoidance Taskforce and the introduction of the Multinational Anti-Avoidance Law (MAAL), Australian sourced sales by these digital giants will ...

ASIC prepares to be primary super conduct regulator

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
... minimisation exercise. "Our new supervisory initiatives - Close and Continuous Monitoring and the Corporate Governance Taskforce - also continue to gain momentum. Finally, we are dedicating significant additional resources to support the Government's ...

Consultation opens on new ASIC powers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2019
... regulator to tap the phones of those under investigation. The new legislation follows on from the ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce which made a number of recommendations that would give the regulator enhanced powers, in line with the Crimes Act, in ...

United front but no merger: AFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... developed largely on the back of the work the AFA has been doing with the FPA in recent months, including the joint taskforce on life insurance and lobbying Senator Jane Hume in Canberra. Consistent with that, FPA chief executive Dante De Gori attended ...

Workplace deaths missing from ESG reports: ACSI

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... disclose their ESG information are now outliers, with only 16 in this group. On climate-related reporting, adoption of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures Framework remains low despite doubling from last year, with only 26 ASX200 companies ...

Wealth management investigations spike

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... the courts," he said. Price also gave an update of its new supervisory approaches - including the corporate governance taskforce and continuous monitoring of large financial services. "Under our close and continuous monitoring program we have already ...

Advice associations meet new minister

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... workable and practical outcomes for members." Recently the two associations have also partnered on a life insurance taskforce as ASIC's Life Insurance Framework review approaches.

FPA, AFA partner on life insurance

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
The key financial advice associations have teamed up for a life insurance taskforce as the industry inches towards ASIC's review of the life insurance framework slated for 2021. The Financial Planning Association of Australia and the Association ...

Budget: RC response to cost over $600m

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... determinations made by legacy mechanisms such as the Financial Ombudsman Service. The Financial Services Reform Implementation Taskforce set up within Treasury to carry out the Government's responses and co-ordinate reform efforts with APRA, ASIC and ...

Big banks, super funds join forces for sustainability

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... group is modelled after the European Union's High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and the UK's Green Finance Taskforce. It will be guided by a steering committee who aim to develop a set of recommendations to assist the finance sector in moving ...