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Mason Stevens launches leveraged product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... Stevens hopes that investors will be attracted to the dividends and franking credits on offer, as well as possible tax deductions on pre-payed annual interest. The instalments, arranged by Mason Stevens and issued by UBS, will be listed on the ASX. Investors ...

Super insurance simplified for funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... Superannuation industry organisations have welcomed new legislation that makes it easier for super funds to claim tax deductions for the cost of total and permanent disability insurance provided to members. Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten introduced ...

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 ...

Streamline super concessions to boost contributions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... Review. Central to their proposals is that the tangled web of salary sacrifice arrangements, multi-faceted super tax deductions, spouse super tax offsets and co-contributions could be replaced with a single simple co-contribution structure that rebates ...

ITC targets Gen Y with trees

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... with a $42,000 HECS debt could borrow the same amount to buy six forestry managed investment scheme units. The tax deductions that person receives not only reduces the tax payable but increases their disposable income which could be used to make voluntary ...

Sisyphian challenge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... low-rent housing, roads, railways and airports and infrastructure in rural areas. Likewise, the government will allow tax deductions for purchases of fixed assets such as machinery to stimulate investment. Mr. Rudd please take note. With all hands on ...

Rising Star calls for home loan tax relief

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... winner Chris Browne has suggested Australia could end its Gen X and Y housing affordability problems by extending tax deductions on margin loans to home loans. He said while the idea was not a new one, it could help put more money into young people's ...

Plan to give: Perpetual

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
... ongoing planned giving strategy in the form of a prescribed private fund (PPF) enabled investors to claim full tax deductions in the year they are made, or deductions can be spread over a five year period. Knowles urged planners to incorporate planned ...

Not easy being green

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... pre-election sweeteners. Families can look to receive up to $8,000 per child to cover childcare costs, although tax deductions on day-care may have closed the cost gap more efficiently. Low-income earners will have better teeth for grinding over their ...

...while Dutton says Labor is missing the MIS point

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... having a bet each way on the issue of AMISs and whether they should be allowed special treatment with up-front tax deductions for capital expenditure. Dutton said Shadow Assistant Treasurer Chris Bowen is holding out a false hope to AMIS operators to ...