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Payday Super arrives midyear. Are your clients ready?
Payday Super will mean more admin and costs for small businesses, says the IPA's Tony Greco. It's time to prepare.
Thousands of Australian expats face tax slug under changes to CGT main residence exemption
For decades, Australians living abroad have been able to claim the capital gains tax (CGT) exemption on the family home. Read more at the...
Soft skills: The future for successful accountants
They know how to manage a meeting, put clients at ease, deal with difficult clients and scenarios, persuade and negotiate, and make themselves...
‘AI is good, but EI is better’, says CEO of IPA
A big conversation is being waged around the movement of AI and what it’s going to mean for the accounting profession in the years to come, but...
APRA takes action over fees charged to dead super members
Avanteos, which is a registrable superannuation entity (RSE) licensee, charged adviser service fees to the accounts of 2,234 deceased members...
AFCA outlines how it will assess adviser conduct under FASEA
The new code, which comes into effect from 1 January 2020, will be overseen by a single disciplinary body that is yet to be announced by the...
Changes to eligibility in claiming on plant and equipment assets
It has been over two years since legislation changes that affected many future property investors. The change was in relation to property...
ASIC urges advisers to flag FASEA concerns
In releasing its approach to ensure adviser compliance with the code, ASIC said it expects licensees to take reasonable steps to ensure that...
Gender-diverse boards can positively impact company performance, equity returns
In a research paper titled, “Evaluating the financial materiality of gender diversity factors”, Yijia Chen, an ESG quantitative research analyst...
Melbourne adviser cops six-year ban
Mr Soleiman was an authorised representative of Apogee Financial Planning during the period June 2013 to February 2018. Read more at the...
ASIC concedes Hayne error on personal advice
At a parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services hearing earlier this week, senator Andrew Bragg noted commissioner...
