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GST increase would deliver $42 billion: FSC

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
The Financial Services Council (FSC) believes Australia's existing mix of taxation is unsustainable with an ageing population and baby boomers moving out of the workforce. Among the FSC's submission to the Tax White Paper are four key proposals including ...

ISA appoints retirement policy adviser

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... Federal Treasury as director of the retirement income modelling taskforce and in the development of superannuation, personal tax and income security policies. He is also credited with conceptualising and modelling the demographic and social expenditure ...

Rice Warner debunks super myths

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... marginal rates. In practice, the removal of tax concessions on superannuation would allow the government to slash personal tax rates anyway.A Further, taxpayers would simply seek other ways of minimising their tax, possibly through negative gearing of ...

Calastone launches automated reporting tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... in all that manual processing and the length of time that takes, affecting the end investor's ability to do their personal tax return." Distributions are made up of income from the underlying units of managed fund, plus the tax components. The underlying ...

Count awards advisers in Shanghai conference

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... Thompson became Young Adviser of the Year. The Support Specialist of the Year award was given to Janelle Jefferies from Personal Tax and Planning. This edition introduced the Pinnacle Award to recognise "exceptional cultural and collaborative contributions ...

Asgard launches new website for advisers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... regarding key client reports and mailings including pre-paid interest offers, annual pension review letters, S290/personal tax deduction letters, investor reports, tax reports, annual audit reports and annual super pension reports. From July onwards ...

Asgard makes tax time easier for planners

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
Asgard has launched a new online process for planners to help them manage clients' personal tax deductions in super. The program will allow advisers to complete the entire process for tax deductions in super online. General manager of BT Financial Group's ...

New tax code to drive Indian reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
India's tax reform proposals will boost local savings, drive investment volumes and push up long term growth in the capital markets. The reforms could lead to strong savings growth for India's middle income households, according research from Mumbai-based ...

Streamline super concessions to boost contributions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... earners are penalised on super contributions because the 15 per cent contributions tax is greater than their own personal tax rate. [These] current concessions are unfair and skewed to the highest income earners," said ISN in a statement. For example ...

Working mothers caught in tax snafu

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
A study revealing that low income mothers pay the highest tax rates highlights how the economic spotlight now on income-tax distribution in Australia is turning into a blowtorch. University of Sydney professor of public economics Patricia Apps has released ...