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Super choice for everyone

The Federal Government will override state laws to extend choice of superannuation to State award employees as of 1 July, 2006. Currently choice of superannuation fund legislation, which will come into effect from July this year, only covers Federal ...

Senate passes changes to super payments reporting

The Senate has passed the Tax Laws Amendment (Superannuation Reporting) Bill allowing employers, from 1 January 2005, to forgo quarterly reporting of superannuation entitlements to employees with little resistance in the upper house of Parliament from ...

Annuities come under divorce settlements

Annuities will become subject to divorce settlements after the Senate passed an amendment to the Family Law Act today. The new legislation, Family Law Amendment (Annuities) Bill 2004, will move annuities into settlements for the first time for couples ...

ASFA slams government's proposed tax law amendments

The government's proposed Tax Laws Amendment (Superannuation Reporting) Bill 20004 to abolish quarterly reporting by employers of superannuation payments could jeopardise the safety of super said ASFA. The bill, which could come into effect from January ...

NAB revises results format

... reflect a full provided single exposure within Corporate and Institutional Banking. As a result of the non-accrual loan amendment, the balances of loans over 90 days in arrears change from $360 million to $492 million at September 30, 2003, and from ...

APRA grants first superannuation licence to REST

... operating standards". Under reforms to the prudential framework for superannuation introduced in the Superannuation Safety Amendment Act 2004 on 1 July this year, all trustees of existing RSEs are required to obtain a licence and register their RSE with ...

Aust govt to support ALP amendments on FTA

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2004
The government will support Labor\'s amendments to the free trade agreement with the United States despite concerns about the impact of the changes, Prime Minister John Howard said today. \"The government has decided that the common sense thing to do ...

Labor to support FTA with US

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2004
The Labor Party will support the proposed free trade agreement with the United States after a crucial caucus meeting this morning voted in favour of the deal. Labor sources said two thirds of Labor parliamentarians supported the deal after ALP members ...

Transition to IFRS will be smooth; APRA

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) on Thursday said it would provide a six month respite period before implementing any prudential amendments after new accounting standards take effect from 1 January 2005. The Australian Accounting ...

New super laws pass through parliament

... superannuation arrangements. The bill was passed through the Senate after Labor chose not to insist on its proposed amendment to cap the entitlement of the eight most senior ministers. But while the new law will ensure newly elected MP's and senators ...