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Wage growth, not wage cuts

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... wages, or retrain and up skill workers. Boosting household incomes could be achieved through government payments or tax relief (although this would add to the budget deficit), while governmental support for higher wages and an increase in the minimum ...

IOOF to provide fee relief to adviser network

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... financial advisers offer free financial guidance to local communities until the end of September. IOOF said it is providing fee relief to its advisers to volunteer 60 hours of their time over a three-month period to provide financial guidance to people ...

Time to buy residential property: Survey

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... investors as well as a business as usual attitude." The survey also revealed that 20% of tenants had asked landlords for rental relief, with rent deferrals or temporary reductions being the most common outcomes. Of these tenant requests, 15% were unable ...

Government offers guidance provision relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
Company directors will not be liable for missing financial guidance targets for the next six months, after the government temporarily amended continuous disclosure provisions to help firms through COVID-19. The amendments, introduced today, ensure companies ...

Sole purpose test poses SMSF rent relief issue

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... half a million Australians lose their jobs and countless businesses shuttered but for SMSF trustee landlords offering rent relief to those facing financial hardship could mean they fail to meet the sole purpose test. Breaching the sole purpose test is ...

MetLife Australia partners with Foodbank

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... Foodbank to provide 186,000 meals to Australians from July this year to next summer as COVID-19 increases the demand for food relief. MetLife Australia and MetLife Foundation's donation represent 10,000kgs of food, the company said. It also equals a ...

Chief economist update: Japan reopens for business

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... reclaiming a complete normal while suppressing infections will take some time." Given this, Abe announced a supplementary budget relief package worth more than ¥100 trillion (US$929 billion) in addition to April's ¥117 fiscal stimulus - which together ...

916 advisers gone in three months, ASIC responds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... financial advice industry pull through COVID-19. "We've adapted and responded to the immediate challenges by providing some relief to financial advisers so Australians can get access for some of the critical questions that are now before them," Shipton ...

Merging super funds guaranteed tax relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... Treasury Laws Amendment (2020 Measures No.1) bill through both the House of Representatives and the Senate, ensuring the tax relief granted to merging super funds is now permanent, rather than a temporary measure. Previously, fund members may have faced ...

Compliance crackdown, consultations on horizon: ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... fraud and controversies that other markets have had." Lewis also revealed the ASX's temporary emergency capital raising relief measures had been widely successful. "They reflect the anticipated difficulty that listed companies would have in the current ...