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First State Super wins government lease

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... Sunshine Coast and Bendigo. The ARI consortium has received approval from Commonwealth regulators including the Australian Taxation Office, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Foreign Investment Review Board. Part of the deal means ...

Media Super launches $30m revolving fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... Credit regime is administered jointly by Innovation Australia (with the assistance of AusIndustry) and the Australian Taxation Office.

Future retirement products aided by tax exclusions

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
... the industry to cast submissions in order to shape the reforms as effectively as possible. "These new rules will remove taxation barriers to the development of new products that will provide greater flexibility in the design of income stream products ...

ATO payroll system tracking unpaid super

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2017
The Australian Taxation Office is tackling the growing $3.6 billion unpaid super problem with its Single Touch Payroll (STP) system that closely monitors employers' inability to pay superannuation entitlements, with the first phase due to roll out on ...

Association and regulator join forces for industry benefit

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... their own retirement destiny through a sustainable SMSF community," Slattery continued. Chris Jordan, the Commissioner of Taxation, said productive partnerships with industry bodies are key to the ATO being a leading tax and superannuation administrator. ...

ATO must reunite individuals with lost super: ASFA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... called on the federal government to amend the Superannuation (Unclaimed and Lost Members) Act to enable the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) to return unclaimed funds directly to an individual's current active superannuation account. "One way to greatly ...

Super taxes break $35bn budget hit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
Treasury has released its latest Taxation Expenditures Statement and it reveals the cost of superannuation's tax breaks to now be $35 billion and on track to climb a further 34% within the next four years. Superannuation taxation expenditures in 2015-16 ...

Industry funds blame ATO for super underpayment

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
Industry superannuation funds are blaming inadequate compliance measures by the Australian Taxation Office for the chronic underpayment of super contributions by employers. At a Senate inquiry in Melbourne today, Industry Super Australia (ISA) stated ...

CPA creates planner education solution

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2017
... does not come with any prerequisites, the CPA strongly encourages candidates to first complete studies in Australian taxation. Rainmaker Information head of technical services, advice and education Giovanni Munoz said that he welcomes the creation of ...

Super headaches from ATO system crash

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
The Australian Taxation Office is working through its worst system outage in recent history, potentially delaying Australians from consolidating or transferring their superannuation before Christmas. The outage began on Monday 12 December, and as of ...