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JobKeeper extension passed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... also amended tax secrecy provisions to allow a taxation officer to disclose information to another Australian government agency which relates to COVID-19. This will enable the ATO to share certain JobKeeper payment information with Commonwealth, state ...

ASIC drops CBA investigation

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... 2006 more than 53,000 times, after it failed to report cash transactions worth $625 million to the financial intelligence agency. AUSTRAC slapped the bank with an additional 100 allegations just three months later, with CBA denying the majority of the ...

Chief economist update: Worse news is better news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
... it would be appropriate over coming months for the Federal Reserve to increase its holdings of Treasury securities and agency residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and CMBS at least at the current pace." "Noting the increase in uncertainty about ...

ACCC flags dangers of ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... increase in cases of identity theft. The ACCC's national scam awareness week this year is focussed on identity theft, with the agency saying they've seen a huge uptick in scams taking advantage of people during the COVID-19 pandemic. ACCC deputy chair ...

Tax fraud goes from paradise to prison

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... men have already been sentenced as part of the investigation. The ATO-led Serious Financial Crime Taskforce is a multi-agency taskforce allowing investigators to investigate matters thoroughly through data-matching capability and international and domestic ...

Chief economist update: Second wave threatens an oil spill

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... the price of oil. But don't take my word for it. In its August 'Oil Market Report', the International Energy Agency (IEA) downgraded its 2020 oil demand forecast by 8.1 million barrels per day (mpd) and revising lower its 2020 prediction ...

ASIC slammed over SMSF data

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
... appropriate procedures at the appropriate time in relation to that data, which was coming from a very reputable brethren agency in the Commonwealth and our responsibility is not to second guess it." Shipton went on to explain the SMSF fact sheet was ...

Westpac discovers additional transaction irregularities

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... additional 175,000 transactions that were not reported to AUSTRAC, while 365,000 were reported to the financial intelligence agency but contained irregularities. It comes after Westpac announced in its 2020 Interim Financial Results in May that it had ...

Pension funds apply pressure on climate change

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... and Exchange Commission (SEC), Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Insurance Office, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Financial Stability Oversight Council and various state offices. It urged the people working within each of these government ...

12 charged in $17m fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
A joint-agency investigation into an elaborate $17 million fraud has resulted in charges against 12 people. Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigators executed search warrants at 10 locations across Sydney, nine in south-east Queensland and two in ...