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Insurance premiums should be questioned

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015
... "Amongst other things, they could be innovating on product design and lobbying the government to ensure that things like stamp duty are removed from life insurance to make it more affordable." Life insurance premiums are one of the constant battles that ...

HOSTPLUS nearly ready for SMSF infra investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... nightmare, but it is laborious, and we want to tread carefully to make sure that along the way we're not paying away excess stamp duty or anything like that." Sicilia said that there was a healthy level of interest from the SMSF sector. "But unfortunately ...

Victoria abolishes stamp duty on life insurance

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
The states of Victoria and the ACT have abolished the stamp duty on life insurance products. The Financial Services Council (FSC) welcomed the move and asked other states to follow. "The announcement today by the Victorian Treasurer to abolish stamp ...

Understand borrowing laws warns ATO

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... The only option is to unwind the arrangement which would mean the forced sale of assets at a bad time, with expensive stamp duty and tax consequences," Quigley said. He said that some arrangements are deliberately entered into to get around the law ...

Ausgrowth unitholders revolt against APGF

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... abandon APGF based on misleading statements issued by APGF that a change could put the bank loans in default, attract stamp duty and investor distributions could be reduced," said Arnold and Bacon in a statement. "Investors are genuinely concerned about ...

New tool launched to gear SMSFs into property

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2011
... change the title, you can't subdivide the land, you can't move into it later, you get a poor yield, there's a risk with stamp duty, there's diversification questions... tax if you take it out of super... there's a lot of red flag issues," he said. The ...

A minute to midnight sees super funds merge

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2011
... which then had to be audited. In his speech, Russell also revealed a serious problem for interstate super fund mergers: stamp duty legislation. Different states have different rules, which can trigger stamp duty events for the members. "If you transfer ...

Life insurance gap down 33pc

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... benefits paid by the government and nine times that amount in disability underinsurance. Rice recommended the removal of stamp duty and a GST for some policies as one method to fill the gap.

Planners eye SMSF property

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... borrowing rules introduced in 2007 that allow trustees leverage property investments. Another risk for trustees is stamp duty. "We're seeing some issues where people are incurring unnecessary stamp duty on the transfer of the property," said Ratcliff. ...

Property managers stifled by lenders

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... of its members believe that securing funding would be their biggest issue over the next year, while the abolition of Stamp Duty and a review on net tangible assets (NTA) are also high on the agenda. Although sentiment within the property sector has improved ...

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