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Fresh Orient Capital acquisitions expand European operations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... leading full-service proxy solicitation firm for annual/special meetings of stockholders (AGMs/EGMs) and act as information agents for companies during takeover and merger offers and votes. The 50% stake in the European business has been acquired from ...

TPB releases tax advice definition in YouTube video

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2014
... Services Act 2009 (TASA) on July 1, 2014. The legislation requires advisers who provide tax advice to become registered tax agents and to meet a number of educational requirements established by the TPB. In the video, Taylor explained that "transitional ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... in a vacuum and that governments and central banks would sit idly by and watch everything go kaboom and other economic agents don't adjust accordingly... and global economies stay on their current track. Get the point? The point is that a lotta assumptions ...

Tax advisers in need of additional PI insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... start of the Tax Agent Services Act (TASA) in July 1, 2014, which requires financial advisers to become registered tax agents if they provide tax advice. The organisation asked advisers to extend PI insurance so that it covers the provision of tax advice ...

Advisers to complete 60 extra education hours under TASA

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... proposed CPE policy requirement for registered tax advisers, which is open for submissions until April 6, 2014. The tax agents' body proposed that advisers undertake CPE from the moment they register as tax advisers. The body has already set up a CPE ...

Synchron pushes for providers' direct payment

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... May 2013, resulted in losses to advisers of a reported $1.5 million. Synchron argued that licensees should be regarded as agents of advisers for the purpose of collecting fees and commissions. "Licensees and their advisers should be free to adopt whichever ...

FPA asks for tax-deductible advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... community and benefits society overall," the submission said. With financial advisers needing to become registered tax agents under the Tax Agents Services Act (TASA) 2009 and the banning of commissions on financial advice, the FPA argues that "this ...

TPB releases guidance on conflict of interest

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... Services Act (TASA) 2009 on the management of conflicts of interest. The document details the actions that registered tax agents should take in case of conflict of interest, something that advisers will need to take into account once TASA comes in on ...

NAB enters SIV market with 21 compliant funds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... the language of their choice, connections and referrals to service providers from legal and tax advisers to real estate agents to help manage their move to Australia and the opportunity to set up NAB personal bank accounts up to 12 months before they ...

FPA expects TASA to require "massive" efforts

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... daily basis," he added. In the next months, the advice industry and the TPB will need to find the gaps between the tax agents and RG146 education processes. Rantall also said that the FPA might ask for another extension of TASA if the legislation and ...