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Hockey accuses Labor of making "a mess" of FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... a bill he did not understand even though he had co-billed," Hockey continued. He argued that the current Coalition government has "taken action by empowering ASIC, by simplifying the laws, by ensuring we go after criminals in this sort of activity." ...

What happened to the ISA-FSC accord?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... on a lot more than they had been. A great deal has happened between the two industry bodies since then. A Coalition government has replaced a Labor one, giving the FSC the political advantage (Brogden himself is a former NSW Liberal leader); the Future ...

Parliament passes temporary tax levy

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
High-income earners will pay more tax after parliament approved the coalition government's first budget measure. The temporary budget repair levy increases the top income tax rate, which applies to any income earned over $180,000, from 45 per cent to ...

Senate report supportive of government FoFA reforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... government's response. "The FPA is eagerly anticipating the next phase of the FoFA reforms which rests now with the Coalition government and Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann," Rantall said. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief operating ...

Parliament passes more nuanced SMSF penalties

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... first proposed by the previous Government responding to the Cooper Review, and we are pleased to see the Coalition Government push the legislation through Parliament. "The new regime will give the ATO more flexibility in administering the SMSF sector.A ...

RBS posts soaring losses, pays $1m bonuses

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... fierce response from Business Secretary Vince Cable, a key Liberal Democrat in Britain's Conservative-led coalition government. "The public will simply not understand why big bonuses and large salaries continue to be paid out by a loss-making public ...

Fears to FoFA amendments "overplayed": AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... FoFA are "incorrect" and described them as "scare tactics." He explained that the amendments proposed by the Coalition government in December 2013 "remove one step from the Best Interests Duty, where there was a lack of clarity" and he added that "in ...

Ripoll rips into Abbott government's 'amateurism'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2013
... claims, the Assistant Treasurer's office made the following statement: "Mr Ripoll fails to mention that the Coalition Government introduced Standard Business Reporting which provided the platform for applications such as SuperTICK to be developed that ...

Cap scrap leaves tax abuses unanswered

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
... the role of government to address what might be perceived poor decisions of tax tribunals." Yesterday the Coalition government announced the removal of the cap on tax deductibility of self-education expenses introduced by the Labor government in July ...

Government removes self-education cap

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013
The Coalition government has removed the cap on tax deductibility of self-education expenses introduced by the Labor government in July. "With the vast bulk of claims for self-education expenses coming from those earning less than $80,000, this was ...