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US reforms open doors for tax-savvy advice

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... that stops them from recommending certain tax strategies. The planning industry welcomed the decision of the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary to send the Patent Reform Act of 2011 to the full Senate. Although there is no timeframe in place for the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
... with 5,027 contracts traded. In economics news on Thursday, Treasury secretary Ken Henry is to appear before a Senate committee. The Australian Bureau of Statistics is to publish data on private new capital expenditure and expected expenditure for the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... annual general meeting, and Advance Energy Ltd holds a general meeting. Telstra and Optus will appear before a Senate committee into the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Bill. The Sequal Deloitte Reverse Mortgage survey is released, and the annual ...

IFSA's Gilbert resurfaces at law firm

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
Richard Gilbert, former chief executive of IFSA, has taken up his new post as director of corporate affairs today at boutique legal firm, Speed and Stracey Lawyers. The chairman of Speed and Stracey Lawyers, Robin Speed, announced Gilbert will be consulting ...

Gilbert to retire

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... career in superannuation in Canberra, acting as secretary across a number of Senate committees including the Senate Committee on Superannuation. During this time, he wrote 12 committee reports including one on the implementation of the Superannuation ...

The house that Sherry built

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2008
... from the beginning. Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, was the chair of the senate committee of superannuation back in 1990 where he presided over the passage of the superannuation guarantee (SG) payments jumping from ...

Sydney on $24 million a day

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2007
... to $170 million - making it a more expensive security exercise than the 2000 Olympics. Figures released to a Senate committee revealed that protecting the world leaders would cost taxpayers a staggering $24 million a day. Prime Minister John Howard in ...

Economic round-up: Going broke going for broke

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2007
... broke. The inspector-general of the Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia, Terry Gallagher, recently told a Senate committee that bankruptcies had risen 12.5 per cent in the nine months to March. "You could go back 10 or 15 years, when bankruptcy ...

AUSTRAC's power to be checked

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
A Senate Committee report on the government's proposed anti-money laundering legislation has responded to finance industry concerns with recommendations for a longer implementation period and curbs on the power of AUSTRAC, the body that will administer ...

Labor to support FTA with US

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2004
... of the deal. Labor sources said two thirds of Labor parliamentarians supported the deal after ALP members of a Senate committee yesterday came down in support of the deal. The party will push for two amendments to the proposed FTA, struck in February ...