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Ruddock plays down call for tougher tax police

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2004
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock has played down calls for the tax office to have stronger policing and intelligence powers to track down serial tax cheats. Newspaper reports said a report recommended the Australian Tax Office (ATO) employ former federal ...

Simon Crean hails ALP as the 'Party of the Superannuants' at talk today

... commissions on compulsory nine per cent superannuation guarantee contributions; a system of flat fees for advice; increasing powers to the regulators such as APRA, ASIC, the ATO and the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal; improved regulation of superannuation ...

AFA hits out on ASIC's FSR license powers

... not that it won't, or that if it does, it will only be in extreme circumstances," said AFA president Robin Yates. "The powers given to ASIC are so extreme that they have the potential to destroy the financial objectives of consumers at the stroke of ...

ASIC provides additional guidance for FSR relief applicants

... (FSR) regime. This additional guidance is provided in amendments to ASIC Policy Statement 167: Licensing: Discretionary powers and transition [PS 167] and Policy Statement 169: Disclosure: Discretionary powers and transition [PS 169], ASIC said. "This ...

ASIC releases new policy on takeover relief

... Corporations Act while maintaining the principles behind takeover regulation. Policy Statement 159 titled Takeovers: Discretionary Powers was developed following comments from takeover market participants on policy proposals released in February. The ...

Trescowthick charged, Clifford Corporation directors committed for trial

... Australian Investments and Securities Commission (ASIC), include 17 for failing to act honestly in the exercise of his powers and the discharge of his duties as an officer of Harris Scarfe Holdings Limited. Mr Trescowthick faced a further 13 counts of ...

Three charged over FAI reinsurance arrangements

... Maxwell Mainprize and Daniel Wilkie were each charged with two counts of failing to act honestly in the exercise of their powers and discharge of their duties as officers of FAI General Insurance Company Limited (FAIG). They were also each charged with ...

Chair and deputy reappointed to Super Complaints Tribunal: Coonan

... overseen the successful resolution of a complaints backlog that resulted from court disruption to the Tribunal's review powers between 1997 and 1999, Senator Coonan said.

Campbell releases Amendment Bill to aid FSR transition

... period will be extended, and only breaches of financial services laws under which ASIC or APRA are given functions and powers will now require reporting.

IFSA gives thumbs up to draft Superannuation Bill

... Australians' savings for retirement," Senator Coonan said. The draft Bill also proposes that APRA be provided with enhanced powers to address funding shortfalls in defined benefit funds, she added. The closing date for comments on the draft of the Bill ...