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ARIA appoints Exec of the Year as new deputy CEO

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
... also worked in various roles at Australian government agencies, including the Department of Finance and Administration, the ATO and Comsuper, where he contributed to the development of public retirement income policy. Steve Gibbs, ARIA's chief executive ...

ATO approves ING monthly life payouts

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
The ATO has handed down a landmark ruling stating that ING's OneCare customers who have life, TPD and trauma benefits paid as monthly installments can avoid having them assessed as income. Mark Vilo, ING's head of marketing & retail products, life risk ...

Compliance maze killing product innovation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
... more than two years negotiating with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Australian Taxation Office (ATO), the Treasury, various state Fair Trading Offices and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in the ...

...while Dutton says Labor is missing the MIS point

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... points. Dutton also said Labor's Primary Industries Spokesman Senator Kerry O'Brien and Bowen have nonetheless criticised the ATO decision. "The changes announced by the Howard Government to the tax treatment of non-forestry managed investment schemes ...

Fight the ATO not Govt on MIS tax ruling: Costello

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
... (MIS) will cause havoc. Treasurer Peter Costello has defended the ruling, emphasising that the decision has been made by the ATO and not the government. "There is a view in the Tax Office that if you put money into a managed investment scheme it is a ...

In-specie transfers up 300 per cent: Multiport

... trustees will no longer have access to the defence that they were careless or unintentionally reckless for any breaches. The ATO is essentially moving to a zero tolerance position on breaches by trustees of an SMSF," he said. Michelle Baltazar

Agribusiness cops a caning from ATO

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
... up-front deductions for their contributions to the MIS on the basis that the investor is 'carrying on a business'." The new ATO stance effectively means that non-forestry agribusiness MIS will lose their current tax concessions. At this stage forestry ...

All is not lost

... lost super money which grew from $6 billion four years ago to $9.7 billion this year, according to the Australian Tax Office (ATO). The ATO has launched an online service that allows people to log in and find out whether they have lost super. Unclaimed ...

Employers should give TFNs to super funds: Mercer

NICK OLIVER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2007
... the new system," said Peter Promnitz, chief executive of Mercer. Mercer has also recommended that the Australian Tax Office (ATO) should provide super funds with TFNs for members for whom the ATO has an appropriate matching. Promnitz went on to say ...

ATO to create single lost super gateway

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is to create a single and simplified gateway for people looking to find their lost or unclaimed superannuation. The ATO will do this by rationalising its existing processes to identify actual lost members, obtain ...