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FSC: Appoint an ASIC commissioner for international issues

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... TheCityUK and the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council. The agency would ensure Treasury, the Australian Tax Office, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, ASIC, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Prudential and Regulation ...

Giving through PAFs back to pre-crisis level

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... Report is an annual survey which uses a variety of sources including Australian Bureau of Statistics and Australian Tax Office data, plus more current information from individual charity appeals and the NAB Charitable Giving Index.

Macquarie admits "unresolved matters" with ATO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
Macquarie Group has admitted it has "unresolved matters" with the Australian Tax Office (ATO), but it considers it holds "appropriate provisions" in those. The group reacted to information published by Fairfax Media, which revealed a full-scale audit ...

ATO figures nail in coffin for SMSF critics: SPAA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2014
... their funds responsibly, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA). According to Australian Tax Office figures, in the 2011-12 financial year, SMSFs withdrew $22.3 billion in benefit payments. This compared to overall contributions ...

SMSF regulation to remain 'light touch': Sinodinos

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2013
... remains light touch." However, he said he was open to listening to issues people may have regarding how the Australian Tax Office regulates the sector. Sinodinos downplayed concerns about SMSF investment in property. "I think unfairly [SMSFs] have been ...

Could ASIC become the SMSF regulator?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... managing director of The Fold. "There's a discussion at the regulatory level going on about whether the ATO [Australian Tax Office] is the appropriate body to regulate SMSFs given that the obligations of SMSF trustees now is so significant," Wivell Plater ...

Macquarie loses court battle with ATO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
Macquarie Group has lost its Federal Court battle with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) over a tax dispute relating to Macquarie's offshore banking unit (OBU) income allocation. Macquarie had been seeking to prevent the ATO from conducting a retrospective ...

Rudd promises to expand Super Clearing House

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... Coalition announced that it would get rid of the Clearing House, and offer a similar service through the Australian Tax Office (ATO). Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Mathias Cormann justified the move, arguing the Clearing House ...

Bravura signs second SuperStream client

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... it entered the Australian market at the end of last year. Earlier this month Babel was certified by the Australian Tax Office to lodge superannuation tax file number integrity check (Super TIC) transactions. Jason Tong, chief operating officer, APAC ...

Bravura gets go-ahead for Super TIC app

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2013
Bravura Solutions Limited has been certified by the Australian Tax Office to lodge superannuation tax file number integrity check (Super TIC) transactions through its Babel financial messaging application. Super TIC allows funds to validate a member's ...