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ATO approves ING monthly life payouts

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
The ATO has handed down a landmark ruling stating that ING's OneCare customers who have life, TPD and trauma benefits paid as monthly installments can avoid having them assessed as income. Mark Vilo, ING's head of marketing & retail products, life risk ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
... Professor Ian Harper, who is responsible for the minimum wage setting for 1.2 million low-paid workers, has said that the next ruling by the Commission would likely come in around the going inflation rate. The last ruling allowed these workers an average ...

...while Dutton says Labor is missing the MIS point

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... to make up its mind as to whether it supports the Australian Tax Office's agribusiness managed investment schemes (AMIS) ruling or whether it doesn't, said Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton. In clear signs the election build-up is overflowing into politics ...

IRESS and XPLAN stay on the up

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
... customer-centric solutions. While organic growth would continue to drive XPLAN's revenues, he said the business was not ruling out further acquisitions. "XPLAN's revenue run rate in 2007 is already above that of 2006 and we expect it to be solid contributor ...

Fight the ATO not Govt on MIS tax ruling: Costello

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
... associated with non-forestry managed investment schemes (MIS) will cause havoc. Treasurer Peter Costello has defended the ruling, emphasising that the decision has been made by the ATO and not the government. "There is a view in the Tax Office that if ...

Agribusiness cops a caning from ATO

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
... altered after Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton yesterday announced the Australian Taxation Office was preparing a new Draft Ruling on the sector. In an official statement, Dutton explained that, "The effect of this change of interpretation of the current ...

All is not lost

... continues, the government has acknowledged that the $9.7 billion sum could balloon even further and has included a new ruling in the latest Costello budget that will give the ATO more resources to reunite individuals with their lost super. A spokesman ...

Courts continue to unwind Westpoint mess

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
The Federal Court has ordered the winding up of 14 companies associated with Norman Carey and the Westpoint group. Ruling on an application made by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Federal Court ordered the winding up ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... multibillion-dollar stock-buyback program pushed the software maker's shares higher, while a federal judge's favorable ruling lifted Altria Group Inc. The Nasdaq had its best week in three years and its longest winning streak since January. The Dow had ...

Govt moves on bankruptcy super shield

... raised to $12,100 per year last September. However, the proposed $12,100 cap has since been dropped in exchange for a new ruling that will allow the courts to nominate how much of a bankrupt individual's super can be accessed by the bankruptcy trustee. ...