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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 ...

Super funds call for SG increase to aid women

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... of women ending up homeless in older age. As a shorter-term strategy, the super fund is also proposing a Housing Crisis Relief Fund be established for women aged 55 and over that are either already living rough or facing the prospect in the near future. ...

ATO closely monitoring SMSF balance caps

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... to the tax treatment of transition-to-retirement income streams and whether or not they wish to use the transitional CGT relief that is available," he said. Secondly, SMSFs with members who took advantage of the practical compliance approach to commutations ...

Australia overdue for company tax cut: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... from 35% to 21% effective 1 January 2018 as part of broader reforms under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aiming to provide tax relief for workers, families and organisations. Thirty-one per cent strongly agreed that Australia is due for major tax reforms ...

ASIC successfully files injunction against Melbourne advice provider

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... Commission Act 2001, including breaches of the best interests duty and unlicensed conduct. As such, ASIC sought injunctive relief as well as declarations of contraventions and financial penalties. According to ASIC, Financial Circle Pty Ltd holds an ...

SMSFs grappling with super changes

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
... industry's focus was on optimising contributions and reducing pension accounts to under $1.6 million as well as considering CGT relief for those affected by the transfer balance cap and transition to retirement changes," he said. Consequently, members ...