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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUL 2013
... Tanna are slated to participate in an AFR energy forum in Sydney. Meanwhile, Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury and opposition finance spokesman Mathias Cormann are due to debate tax issues at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney. In Australia, the market on Tuesday ...

FPA sets out opposition to self-education cap

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has opposed the proposal to cap self-education tax concessions at $2,000 in a submission to government. The FPA said that a Diploma of Financial Planning costs around $1,800 and that an average adviser would ...

Opposition challenges Labor to review Trio fraud

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
Shadow Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Mathias Cormann has called on new Treasurer Chris Bowen to review the Gillard government's response to the Trio Capital scandal. Described as the "largest superannuation fraud in Australian history" ...

Government extends TASA exemption

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... would have created a new licensing regime with less than four weeks to go before implementation, in the face of fierce opposition from the financial services industry and yet again more cost increases for consumers."

FPA, AFA to lobby MPs for TASA delay

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... industry, the businesses and the licensees." The FPA also said that it would be meeting the independents, the greens, the opposition and the government to gather support to remove TASA from the bill and allow industry and Treasury a further 6 months ...

Government scraps proposed SMSF transfer changes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... through existing markets for those securities. Dropping the changes effectively adopts recommendations made by the opposition. The SMSF Professionals' Association of Australia (SPAA), which has been urging the government to scrap the proposed legislation ...

Shorten slams opposition's 'freeze-frame' super plans

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... Tax and Superannuation Laws Amendment (2013 Measures No 1) Bill 2013 into the House of Representatives to slam the Opposition's plans to delay an increase in compulsory super contributions. The bill follows Government moves on a raft of changes to the ...

Government to update More Super calculator

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... $127,000 into their superannuation by the time they retire at 67." They also took the opportunity to fire a shot at the opposition, saying, "The only thing Tony Abbott and the Liberal Party are interested in is cutting superannuation to the bone."

UK to consider Australia model for small pension fund mergers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... towards pooled funds which could make major savings in fees and administration due to economies of scale. The UK's opposition party, Labour, said it would require pension trustees to impose mergers on small pension funds which under-delivered, along ...

SPAA, Deloitte join calls for SG deferral rethink

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
... the Coalition's plan to defer the increase to the Superannuation Guarantee (SG) by two years. The debate centres on Opposition leader Tony Abbot's budget reply speech in which he said the Coalition would delay raising the SG from 9% to 12%, in a bid ...