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New inspector-general of taxation appointed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2024
... leadership positions across the public sector in Australia and the UK. Owen has previously been a director general and tax commissioner of His Majesty's Revenue and Customs in the UK, head of profession in the UK Civil Service and deputy secretary of ...

ASIC calls out licensees: 'We will take action'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2024
Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) commissioner Alan Kirkland issued a blunt warning to licensees not meeting their obligations. Speaking at an industry event, Kirkland said the regulator has spent two years warning licensees to ...

Super leaders take out King's Birthday honours

ELIZABETH FRY  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2024
... She has been president of the Australian Council for International Development as well as a National Mental Health Commissioner. She also led the government's Women's Economic Equality Taskforce. Meantime, Rubinsztein, a former Association of ...

Australians selling assets over seeking help: ASIC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2024
... would rather sell their personal belongings or get a second job rather than seek financial hardship assistance," ASIC commissioner Alan Kirkland said. "Customers in hardship are entitled under the law to request assistance. These findings should be top ...

Early release of super scammers cop prison time

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
... to steal and defraud by using the stolen or fake identity information of other people," he said. Acting ATO deputy commissioner Jade Hawkins commented that fraudulent behaviour like this takes essential funding away from Australians' retirement savings. ...

ASIC tells super funds to 'step it up'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2024
... at the Australasian Investor Relations Association event, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) commissioner Simone Constant gave a stern warning to Australian superannuation funds. Constant said financial reporting of listed companies ...

ASIC cancels Everest Asset Management's AFSL

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2024
... Australia and throughout the world, with the volume of transfers masking the laundering of tainted funds, AFP assistant commissioner Stephen Dametto. The Criminal Assets Confiscation Taskforce has restrained property and other assets that include houses ...

COVID helped to reduce inequality: Productivity Commission

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2024
... stages of the pandemic, due to the massive increase in support payments from the government," Productivity Commission commissioner Catherine de Fontenay said. "Income inequality increased later in the pandemic period as the economy recovered and government ...

'Just do what you say you'll do': ASIC's message to trustees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024
ASIC commissioner Simone Constant says the regulator's new report on exorbitant advice fee deductions is not a criticism of advisers, rather of trustees failing basic obligations, with more still needing to be done by the reviewed funds some 12 ...

ASIC slams funds' serious deficiencies over advice fee charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2024
... practices can help mitigate risks and protect superannuation members from real financial harm over the long-term," ASIC commissioner Simone Constant said. "ASIC is concerned about the potential impact on superannuation members, particularly amid evidence ...