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Government mulls reforms to tax residency rules

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... residency for tax purposes in Australia, recommending a person's residency be defined by the number of days they spend in the country in a 12-month period. The Board of Taxation has undertaken a review of what it means to be an Australian resident for ...

Chief economist update: Steady at 24 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... to "the direction of international trade policy in the US" and "strains in a few emerging market economies, largely for country-specific reasons." But its prognosis for Australia's domestic economy is still as it was when it met on June 5 and May ...

Chief economist update: Rate hike hawks in RBA dove's shadow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
They're no mere mortals, they're three of the 10 highly-qualified and esteemed experts at the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA) that currently sits as the CAMA RBA Shadow Board. They are Doctors Mark Crosby, Warwick McKibbin and ...

Chief economist update: Lessons from the last world trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2018
... businesses waiting to turn this into a very big global event...What's happening is very disturbing. Can anyone think of a country that's made itself wealthier or more productive by building walls?" Financial markets may have forgotten their history ...

Age pension application difficult: Report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... and in doing so understood the application process required a hybrid approach of telephone support and web access. "In a country like Australia where people have worked hard and paid taxes their whole life, it's simply not fair that government makes ...

New campaign combats elder financial abuse

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2018
... agreement by the nation's top lawmakers on June 8 to identify options to standardise Power of Attorney orders across the country is a significant step in tackling the issue of elder financial abuse - but more work has to be done. "Local bank branch staff ...

Government opens consultation for amended CCIV regime

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
The Federal Government opened consultation to industry stakeholders for the first tranche of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle) Bill 2018. In August 2017, the Government called for initial consultation on the CCIV ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... But as China's emerging market index concentration grows, iShares says investors might be better off adopting a single country focus on China by rethinking emerging markets to exclude China. "Global ETP flows suggest investors are doing just that: EM ...

Now showing: Trump and Kim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... US would be a complete de-nuclearisation of North Korea. A win for North Korea would be the lifting of sanctions on the country first and foremost, a guarantee that the US will not invade North Korea and a reduction of US military presence in South Korea. ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... kinds - military jets, airliners from Boeing, lots of farm products". This is good because Japan is an export-dependent country and the US, its biggest export market accounting for 19% of total exports. China accounts for 18%. This would further energise ...