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TPB cracks down on 74 tax practitioners

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2020
... Practitioners Board has found 74 tax practitioners to be engaging in "concerning behaviour", including using fraudulent SMSF Auditor Numbers (SANs). In 2019, the ATO started a compliance campaign that involved reviewing SMSF annual returns. It found ...

ATO cracks down on SMSFs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... of tax returns by SMSFs, the top 100 SMSFs and tax planning, the top 100 auditors, high risk auditors and SMSF Auditor Number misuse. Non-lodgement among SMSFs, she explained, was an issue because it is correlated to illegal early release scheme - those ...

ATO clamps down on auditor number misuse

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2020
... director Kellie Grant chaired a discussion at the conference. The ATO ramped up its efforts to discourage SMSF Auditor Number (SAN) misuse since 2017, when it started sending each SMSF auditor a list of funds claiming to be audited by their SAN. "What ...

SMSF auditors in firing line

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... and otherwise not being a fit and proper person." Philip Shugg from Victoria has been disqualified from being an SMSF auditor for "not being a fit and proper person" noting that he was bankrupt. Greg Marlow from the Northern Territory have been suspended ...

Half of all AFSL applications approved

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2019
... additional regulatory outcomes; we cancelled 342 AFS licences and suspended 11 AFS licences." ASIC also finalised 92 SMSF auditor applications - of which, 62 were received during the year and 30 were yet to be finalised from last year. About 61 of those ...

Planners heed SMSF risk warning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
Are you effectively communicating the importance of diversification to your SMSF clients? Delegates have been warned how to avoid triggering the ATOs radar. Aaron Dunn, who is the chief executive of Smarter SMSF, has provided an update on SMSF regulation ...

ASIC keeps watch on SMSF auditors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... having audits peer reviewed, with the results being reported to ASIC; additional training requirements; passing the SMSF auditor competency exam; strict timeframes for responding to the ATO or ASIC; and providing notice of registration conditions to ...

Government cuts SMSF red tape

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2018
... have a history of good record keeping and compliance. Currently, SMSFs must be audited annually by an independent SMSF auditor who is registered with ASIC and audits documents prepared prior to submitting an SMSF annual return (SAR). The ATO generally ...

SMSF trustees warned on non-compliant crypto

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... regulations. According to Bitcoin Trader partner Warrick Pleash, there are trustees investing in cryptocurrency on behalf of their SMSF as an individual - a clear but unintended violation of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993. Pleash ...

SuperConcepts enhances document management system

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
SuperConcepts launched a new document management functionality within its self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) accounting platform, SuperMate. Users can scan or email documents which are then automatically read, categorised and filed via the new ...