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Proposed super tax requires perspective: Expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2024
... Presenting at the SMSF Association National Conference, Heffron Consulting managing director Meg Heffron called on SMSF professionals to put some perspective around the proposed new tax and anticipate some critical questions they will be fielding from ...

ASIC vigilant on bad SMSF advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2024
... opportunity to access superannuation savings early and illegally. Financial advisers, accountants, and other SMSF professionals have a key role to play in addressing this problem, Sciacca said, urging them to alert ASIC if they come across any SMSF misconduct. ...

CountPlus to acquire Challenger SMSF business

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
... Accurium provides SMSF actuarial certificates and has a subscriber base of around 3000 accounting firms and 11,000 SMSF professionals. It is one of the largest education providers in the SMSF space. Managing director Douglas McBirnie will stay in the ...

SMSF Association reaffirms ATO partnership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... the agreement with ATO commissioner Chris Jordon. It was designed to develop the knowledge and competency of SMSF professionals and trustees through partnership education programs and to allow the ATO improved ability to manage SMSFD compliance by supporting ...

SMSFA addresses policy hurdles

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... industry at the Sydney leg of this year's SMSF Association Technical Day. Speaking to the crowded room of SMSF professionals, SMSF Association chief executive John Maroney highlighted the "wave of reforms" facing the SMSF industry, including FASEA. ...

SMSFA appoints high profile former politicians

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... similarly pleased, noting "the Association plays a crucial role in advocating for the SMSF sector, especially SMSF professionals, which I experienced first-hand in my time in Government." Ripoll held the House of Representatives seat of Oxley from 1998 ...

Association and regulator join forces for industry benefit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... Slattery explained that, in practice, the partnership will be about developing the knowledge and competency of the SMSF professionals and trustees via shared research and knowledge projects and increasing the efficiency of dealings between the sector ...

Slattery steps down from SMSF Association

ALEX BURKE, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2017
... with the appointment of her successor. Slattery has been chief executive of the SMSF Association, formerly the SMSF Professionals Association of Australia (SPAA), since its formation in 2003. During that period, she presided over the industry's key representative ...

SMSF advisers face demanding year

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
... smartphone app showed that delegates were overwhelmingly in favour or such a move. Another poll showed most SMSF professionals were more relaxed about the $1.6 million cap with some indicating they thought the measure was understandable in ensuring the ...

SMSFs attract too much criticism

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... in a presentation at the SMSF Association National Conference. Burgess opened his presentation by praising SMSF professionals for quietly getting on with business in the face of hostile media, which has attacked limited recourse borrowing arrangements ...
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