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Budget commitment to aged care not good enough

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... the government announced it would support older Australians and their families by providing a targeted capital gains tax (CGT) exemption for formal granny flat arrangements. The new measure will also apply for people living with disabilities. Prior to ...

APRA funds can learn from SMSFs: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... manage the tax situation," it said. "It is well known that moving from accumulation to pension phase is not considered to be a CGT event, so deferred tax liabilities are released on retirement. Some APRA funds now pay a pension transfer bonus to partly ...

Expats sweat as main residence CGT cut-off looms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... Management managing director James Ridley argues that with just over four weeks looming to the cut-off date for the main residence CGT exemption, expats are set to face a potentially huge capital gains tax burden. "Their decisions are limited; they either ...

Merging super funds guaranteed tax relief

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... rather than a temporary measure. Previously, fund members may have faced a Capital Gains Tax liability when their fund merged. CGT rollover relief designed to reduce that liability was previously a temporary measure, which was extended several times. ...

HUB24 net inflows up 72%

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... their clients to adapt quickly to the current conditions." These include the platform's tax efficiency tools to manage CGT and transaction cost implications when rebalancing portfolios, and digital signatures for onboarding clients. Other solutions ...

Netwealth leads the platform pack

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
... evaluated offer managed accounts. Choi said there had been significant improvements in the space over the past year; including new CGT modelling tools, improvements in the substitution and exclusion of direct stocks, and equipping model managers with ...

Superannuation bills on hold

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2019
... met. Treasury Laws Amendment (Reducing Pressure on Housing Affordability Measures No 2) Bill 2018 This Bill aims to remove CGT applied to the main residence exemption for foreign residents and increase the CGT discount by 10% for gains on affordable ...

Chief economist update: The curse of Japan's consumption tax hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... consumption tax from 8% to 10% in October this year, "Mr. and Mrs. Watanabe" are certain to do what they did prior to the CGT tax hikes in 1997 (3% to 5%) and 2014 (5% to 8%). That is, go shopping before the tax hike becomes effective and then hibernate ...

AFA explains stance on grandfathered commissions

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... need to be considered. "The Federal Government needs to come to the party on some of these issues and provide things like CGT rollover and Centrelink deeming rollover treatment so that advisers can actively work with their clients to move them to modern ...

Advice firm runs rule over Labor policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... deduction may be a sufficient incentive to lock money away until retirement." On capital gains tax, Labor's proposal to halve the CGT discount from 50% to 25% on all investments after a specified date, may lead to a surge of investment, particularly ...