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Views sought on super form changes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... temporary residents or to employees when their superannuation funds merge. In November last year federal Minister for Small Business, Bruce Billson, announced the legislation is to be active from July 1, 2015. Changes to the choice regime will reportedly ...

Remove 10% rule for deductible contributions: SMSF Association

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
The SMSF Association has argued for the removal of the 10% rule for tax deductible voluntary contributions to allow all employees access to deductions to superannuation contributions. "Removing the 10% rule would alleviate the red-tape burden for businesses ...

Law firm deems SIV changes unworkable

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
Proposed changes to the Significant Investor Visa (SIV) aimed at pumping funds into small businesses and venture capital projects could spell disaster for the scheme because Chinese investors want low risk assets, according to law firm Hall & Wilcox. ...

Stella Network ramps up support for women in financial planning

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... Marketing Monika Drankowska Social Media Jodie Osborne and Rechelle Coombes Media Julie Bennett and Fiona Harris Small business Annick Donat and Lucy Pryor Career/Interviewing Georgia Denny Career and leadership coaching Lauren Bunton Gen Y Siboney Corrales ...

Allow couples to hold joint super accounts: Rice Warner

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
Married couples should be allowed to have a joint account for their superannuation, Rice Warner proposed in its pre-budget submission to Treasury. "We set out the logic of this arrangement in a newsletter last year and had positive feedback from the ...

ASIC report highlights insufficient penalties

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... outcomes between July 1, 2014, and December 31, 2014. Of those, 90 related to financial services companies and 204 to small business compliance and deterrence. ASIC took 172 criminal actions against small business company directors and 21 administrative ...

Taxpayers Australia supports Board of Tax recommendation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
Taxpayers Australia has announced its support for the Board of Tax recommendation to redefine the small business turnover threshold from $2 million to $3 million to keep pace with inflation. "Relief to small business is necessary as they do not have ...

Spike in SMSF borrowing breaches

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... thinking it was permissible to use their fund to borrow to overcome a short term liquidity problem - much like a small business seeking a temporary extension to a bank overdraft in difficult circumstances." Now into its seventh year, the Partners Wealth ...

Funds urge government to reject lift of super threshold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
... recommendations of the Board of Taxation appear to be proposed on the basis of removing compliance requirements for small business," Cbus chief executive David Atkin said. "Policy makers need to weigh policy recommendations against how they ensure that ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... strengthening momentum in the US economy. More indications of which came in the form of the 2-point increase in the NFIB Small Business Optimism Index to 98.1 in November - the highest print in the current recovery - amid sharp gains in expectations ...