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Private equity tax treatment under scrutiny

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
The Australian Tax Office has responded to criticism that tax treatment of gains on private equity is impacting flow of development capital from institutional investors. The Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCAL) has raised ...

SuperMate updates online SMSF

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... corporate actions processing, overnight bank data download into SMFSs for 95% of bank transactions and direct Australian Tax Office lodgment of SMFS BAS and IAS returns, which superMate says results in a 50% time saving. "As corporate actions account ...

Tax concessions focus of Super roundtable

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... welfare system," Shorten said. Yesterday's roundtable provided a forum for discussion on the role of the Australian Tax Office in calculating member balances in addition to how and when fund balances should be calculated and whether those who have entered ...

SMSFs the new retail

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... market and it's been very much self directed and non- advised from an investment perspective." Recent figures from the tax office showed SMSF assets more than doubled the growth of total super assets over the past five years, 122% compared to 60% to ...

Super accounts on path for consolidation: Shorten

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... standards will enable funds to communicate effectively with each other and with third parties, including the Australian Tax Office," said Hogan.

New data questions SMSF inflows

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... Partners, identified a number of data trends emerging in the self-managed super fund (SMSF) space based on Australian Tax Office (ATO) data. Baker said facts about SMSFs are difficult to collate "mostly relying on ATO data from SMSF tax returns" with ...

SuperStream exposure draft a positive step

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... draft outlining new standardisation process and industry efficiency. This new bill provides legislative capacity for tax office to develop data payments standards, mechanisms for tax office to payments standards and to outline penalty regime. The penalty ...

Colley departs OnePath for SPAA

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... Centrelink, aged care and taxation to planners, key accounts and users of OnePath products. He also held senior roles at the tax office and as an assistant commissioner of the insurance and superannuation commission. "Graeme has made a significant contribution ...

Female SMSF trustees narrow gender gap

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... gender gap in retirement savings according to Australia's peak SMSF body. Pointing to recently released figures from the tax office that reveal 46% of SMSF trustees are female, compared with 34 % of APRA regulated funds, the Self-Managed Super Fund Professionals' ...

SMSFs dominating super assets

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2011
The peak body for SMSFs has welcomed the latest Australian Tax Office statistics which show SMSF assets have grown at twice the rate of total super industry assets in the past five years to June 30 2010. According to the "Self Managed Super Funds: a ...