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ATO clarifies borrowing issues for SMSFs

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012
... asset, according to the SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia. The release of the Self Managed Superannuation Funds Ruling SMSFR 2012/1 by the Tax Commissioner has brought some clear-thinking to issues surrounding borrowing and single assets by ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... membership back into question. HONG KONG - Asian markets and the euro slumped after voters in France and Greece voted out their ruling parties in a backlash against austerity measures aimed at battling the eurozone crisis, and on weak US job figures. ...

China a good bet in the long run: Thawley

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... internal problems China faces are as bad as anything we have seen since Tiananmen Square." "We know very little about the ruling communist party and the episode exposes the corruption within the party," said Thawley. "Consumption reforms need to be done ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... traded. US stocks closed higher on Thursday but failed to lock in early strong gains helped by positive jobs data and a key ruling for the pending Greek debt write-off that had boosted the Dow back above the 13,000 line. At the closing bell, the Dow ...

FINRA relaxes social media controls

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
Australian financial planners may see some of their social media compliance issues lessen if Australian regulators follow FINRA's lead, after the US regulator proposed changes to its rulings to allow planners to communicate through social media without ...

SMSF sector tackling misconceptions

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2011
... time for the industry. "Perhaps some of the major issues that will arise in 2012 will be around borrowing, draft pension ruling and auditors," said Burgess. The draft pension rulings released from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) in July this year ...

Arrivederci Berlusconi Ciao

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... not secure a majority (308 votes out of the 630 seats) because of, in his words, "the defection of seven members of the ruling majority today." E finito. "After the approval of this finance law, which has amendments for everything which Europe has asked ...

Happily dreaming of the end

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011

SMSFs given leeway on property assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
Self managed super fund trustees will be allowed to make improvements to property assets under a proposed new ruling from the Australian Taxation Office, which has also relaxed its interpretation of single acquirable assets. The ATO's draft ruling on ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... Ordinaries index was up 102.2 points, or 2.5 per cent, at 4,262.9. NEW YORK - US stocks jumped on Wednesday after a German court ruling helped clear the way for a eurozone bailout plan and the Federal Reserve said the US economy was still growing slowly. ...