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Technical Services Forum looks at tax and aged care

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... claiming specific SBCGT concessions: 15-year exemption, 50% active assets reduction, and retirement emption and rollover relief as the couple's company passed through various stages and they transitioned in retirement. As an example, while calculating ...

BTFG boss backs PC super proposals

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... and underperforming products off the market. Same for fund mergers having provision for permanent gains capital gains tax relief. "Any superannuation fund that believes it performs strongly, is well governed and delivers good member outcomes should embrace ...

Westpac off the hook in BBSW scandal

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... and the BBSW was set in a way that was favourable to its rate set exposure. A future hearing will decide the penalty and relief. The date is yet to be determined. ASIC has been going after potential BBSW misconduct for about five years now. Early casualties ...

Chief economist update: Wisdom of the crowd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... both side of the negotiating table are making the right noises, reports that they failed to reach consensus on providing relief to Chinese telecom ZTE only ignited suspicion on whether or not a substantial trade agreement could be reached. More so, given ...

ASIC wants industry views on short selling

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... consultation coincides with the sunsetting of a number of related class orders, ASIC said. ASIC is proposing to grant legislative relief to "allow market makers of certain exchange-traded products to naked short sell units in an exchange traded fund ...

Labor responds to 'unfair' Budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... are 70, he added. "We know middle class and working class people are struggling with the cost of living - this is overdue relief, but it doesn't make up for Turnbull's cost of living increases and cuts to penalty rates." Chalmers said funding just 14,000 ...

What the associations want from Budget 2018

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... wants SG to be extended to dependent contractors, the self-employed, the $450 a month threshold removed and permanent tax relief for merging superannuation funds. ASFA thinks a July 2018 start date for Australian Financial Complaints Authority ( AFCA ...

GBST and super fund collaborate for tax relief

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... functionality in managing and calculating capital gains tax. Under the latest reforms, complying super funds receive CGT relief for capital gains accumulated before 1 July 2017. While these gains would previously have been exempt, they are now taxable ...

Super calculators given further ASIC relief

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... calculators until 1 July 2019. The law enforcement agency said this extension does not affect other provisions of ASIC's relief for calculators. ASIC explains that a generic financial calculator is a facility, device or table that is used to make a general ...

Tariff exemption a sigh of relief: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
Directly subjecting Australia to US President Donald Trump's proposed steel and aluminium tariffs would have been dire for the country's resources sector, according to more than half (63%) of respondents in Financial Standard 's weekly spot poll. Australia ...