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  1. ‘Sustainability is not a buzzword’: IPA

    Stylianou, the IPA Group executive for advocacy and technical, on the sidelines of the national congress held in Adelaide last month. Ms Stylianou explained that the e-book is not about dictating procedure, rather its purpose is to serve as a guide for...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Maja Garaca Djurdjevic
    • Category: Business
  2. 2020 audits to focus on investment strategy

    needs of the fund.” SMSF auditor and Tactical Super director Deanne Firth said the ATO’s letter campaign to 17,000 trustees last year had shaken many in the industry out of their complacency when it came to constructing a detailed investment strategy....

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Sarah Kendell
    • Category: Super
  3. Advisers must prepare for TBC indexation

    are expected to be released at the end of January. However, as ATO deputy commissioner James O’Halloran explained in August last year, once indexation occurred, there would no longer be a single TBC applying to all super fund members, meaning each would...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Sarah Kendell
    • Category: Business
  4. Accountants-geared business appoints new head of growth

    for accountants, expressed his excitement to take on the new role as head of growth for ChangeGPS. Reflecting on the last five years, he said, “Everything I’ve loved has been about helping accountants and I think the nine ChangeGPS apps are the easiest...

  5. FASEA reveals update on adviser exam for 2020

    accessible and effective, and exam sitting opportunities are optimised,” it said. The latest on the adviser exam comes after last year saw a decision made to recognise Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and Certified Practicing Accountants...

  6. Is bank mistrust breeding financial criminals?

    using a Ponzi scheme method. But eventually he left his victims penniless. He was eventually captured by police and in June last year was jailed for up to 16 years. But the money he stole is long gone. No remediation programs being announced from this...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: James Mitchell
    • Category: Business
  7. Mazars Australia boasts 100% revenue growth

    31 August 2019. The growth comes as the firm doubled its reach in Australia through its expansion in Brisbane and Melbourne last year. Mazars Australia now employs 302 professionals under the leadership of 34 partners. The Australian figures contributed...

  8. SG loophole measure now in force

    salary sacrifice contributions cannot be used to reduce an employer’s minimum SG contributions is now in force. Passed last year, the new measure kicked in on 1 January 2020, making it explicitly clear that employee salary sacrifices to superannuation...

  9. Voluntary super a ‘blatant tax grab’: ISA

    low-income earners would be nothing more than a “blatant tax grab”, according to new research by Industry Super Australia. Last year, Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg put forward a proposal to allow workers earning $50,000 and under to opt out of compulsory...

  10. ‘A real fight’: Advice gap looms as more exit the industry

    and New Zealand, CPA Australia and the Institute of Public Accountants re-establishing the joint accounting bodies late last year to lobby against the current complex regulatory regime. The tripartite lobbying effort comes as the bodies believe there is...

  11. Ageing SMSF members trapped in legacy pensions

    income stream or an annuity.” Ms Steed said AET had received almost 50 inquiries about how to manage legacy pensions in the last half of 2019, and that the trustee services company was calling on the government to enact an amnesty allowing pensioners to...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Sarah Kendell
    • Category: Super
  12. SA super scammer charged with 69 counts of deception

    of deception in an alleged SMSF scam will now face further action after attempting to dissuade witnesses from testifying. Last week, a 33-year-old man was charged with 69 counts of deception following investigations from South Australia Police’s...

  13. Liquidator sweats on AAT termination review

    ASIC’s publishing of reasons for his registration termination as he awaits an AAT review of the termination decision. Late last year, a liquidator disciplinary committee decided that the registration of registered liquidator Trajan John Kukulovski of...

  14. ASIC secures permanent ban for dodgy accountant

    an accountant and financial adviser from providing financial services after his earlier house arrest sentencing. In October last year, Nicholas James Ellis, an accountant and former financial adviser operating in Valentine, NSW, was sentenced to three...

  15. Mid-tier appoints new managing principal

    principal, taking over from Tom Verco. Mr Verco, who has been the managing principal of Pitcher Partners Adelaide for the last 17 years, will stay with the firm as a principal in its private business and family advisory division. His successor, Mr...

  16. Major bank eyes small businesses with new initiatives

    banking fees, with the bank removing all electronic transaction fees from Commonwealth Bank business accounts in August last year, and more recently, introducing a more flexible fee option for customers who prefer to bank online. “Our small business...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Reporter
    • Category: Business
  17. 14k employers, $230m in super: Financial Services Minister defends proposed SG amnesty

    minimum penalties on employers who fail to come forward during the amnesty period. The bill passed the lower house late last year, with debate in the Senate set to resume when Parliament sits in February. Ms Hume also took the opportunity to shoot down...

  18. Practitioners warned over Div 7A journal entry practices

    documentation, potentially leaving practitioners open to breaching section 30-10 of the Tax Agent Services Act 2009. Lastly, Ms Jacobson said a journal entry only amounts to a payment where the principle of mutual set-off applies, for example, when the...

  19. Property deduction errors down to ‘lack of understanding’: ATO

    to trip property investors up, leading to simple mistakes and heaping pressure on tax agents, the ATO has revealed. Last year, the ATO singled out rental property deductions as a “top priority” for the agency, with Commissioner of Taxation Chris Jordan...

  20. SISFA warns against special treatment for accountants in advice reform

    Association, with the aim of reforming and simplifying the current advice framework. Speaking at a Pritchitt Partners event last week, SMSFA chief executive John Maroney said the groups were working through a blueprint to take to government around a...