Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 61 - 70 of 177 results for "Taskforce"

Tax chiefs crack down on tax evasion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020
... financial institution. The Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5) was formed in 2018 after a call from the OECD Taskforce on Tax Crime. The J5 includes the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) from the UK, Internal ...

Nowra man lies to ASIC, jailed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2020
... investigation into the holdings in Northwest shares. The investigation was conducted under the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce. "ASIC views seriously any attempt by individuals to hide their identities in holding substantial interest in shares by offshore ...

Calls for disability insurance reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... urgent reform of Australia's $5 billion disability income insurance sector. The institute said it has established a taskforce saying that failure to implement significant changes will reduce consumer access to affordable disability cover in the future. ...

Google to pay ATO $481.5m

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2019
... raking in a nice $1.25 billion to bolster the budget. "Thanks to the efforts of our ATO officers under the Tax Avoidance Taskforce and the introduction of the Multinational Anti-Avoidance Law (MAAL), Australian sourced sales by these digital giants will ...

ASIC prepares to be primary super conduct regulator

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2019
... minimisation exercise. "Our new supervisory initiatives - Close and Continuous Monitoring and the Corporate Governance Taskforce - also continue to gain momentum. Finally, we are dedicating significant additional resources to support the Government's ...

Consultation opens on new ASIC powers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2019
... regulator to tap the phones of those under investigation. The new legislation follows on from the ASIC Enforcement Review Taskforce which made a number of recommendations that would give the regulator enhanced powers, in line with the Crimes Act, in ...

United front but no merger: AFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... developed largely on the back of the work the AFA has been doing with the FPA in recent months, including the joint taskforce on life insurance and lobbying Senator Jane Hume in Canberra. Consistent with that, FPA chief executive Dante De Gori attended ...

Workplace deaths missing from ESG reports: ACSI

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... disclose their ESG information are now outliers, with only 16 in this group. On climate-related reporting, adoption of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures Framework remains low despite doubling from last year, with only 26 ASX200 companies ...

Wealth management investigations spike

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... the courts," he said. Price also gave an update of its new supervisory approaches - including the corporate governance taskforce and continuous monitoring of large financial services. "Under our close and continuous monitoring program we have already ...

Advice associations meet new minister

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUN 2019
... workable and practical outcomes for members." Recently the two associations have also partnered on a life insurance taskforce as ASIC's Life Insurance Framework review approaches.