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Litigation funding fight heats up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... the 39% number on notice. O'Neil accused Mathias of making a submission containing factual errors, of "misquoting" a Federal Court judge and "discrediting himself by his submission". She added that it may be worth considering whether Mathias' ...

Woman jailed in $105m tax scam

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020
... given a non-parole period of two years and six months. Operation Elbrus was a 2017 investigation led by the Australian Federal Police (AFP), with significant assistance from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), into a large-scale and organised tax fraud ...

Chief economist update: We're all Victorians now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... and services from the state would be frozen for the six-weeks that the second lockdown is expected to last. Australian Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg estimated that Victoria's lockdown will cost the about A$1 billion a week "for the Victorian ...

ATO can make cost of advice cheaper: Asher

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... retirement." Asher's comments come as the government is due to hand down the findings from the Retirement Income Review that Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg launched last year. He said retirees' needs fall into just five categories: a high income ...

Melburnians back in the lockup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... ultimately, delay the country's recovery from recession and/or deepen the ongoing GDP contraction. This, as much, was what Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said in his interview with 'The Australian Financial Review'... "With Victoria comprising ...

Experts battle for GST reform

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... collections on payroll ($26 billion in 2018-19) or stamp duties ($19 billion in 2018-19), it said. Similarly, the NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations has made the case for increasing the base or main GST rate. In its draft report Supporting the ...

Land tax, not stamp duty: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... the scrapping of stamp duty when buying or selling a home, to be replaced by a broad-based land tax. The NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations draft report says there is a strong case for reforming GST and reducing the nation's reliance on more harmful ...

ANZ accused of paying hush money on BBSW scandal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
In an action filed in the Federal Court ANZ has been accused of throwing a whistleblower under the bus, paying a fine as "hush money" and "virtue signalling" following ASIC's investigation into ANZ's alleged manipulation of the bank bill swap rate. ...

Chief economist update: The post-pandemic problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... the coronavirus outbreak shortly after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it a pandemic in mid-March as the Federal government imposed stricter social distancing measures. The words enunciated by other world leaders may have been different ...

Perpetual wins government fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
A new fund from the federal government has appointed a Perpetual subsidiary as its trustee while a consortium of global managers has won the investment management mandate. The Emerging Markets Impact Investment Fund (EMIIF) will invest in small to medium ...