The Australian Securities and Investments Commission wants to beef up the mandatory disclosures advisers give to people setting up a self-ma…
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission wants to beef up the mandatory disclosures advisers give to people setting up a self-ma…
With the new financial year kicking off today it’s time to get organised for the year ahead. Here at SmartCompany we’ve put together …
The self-managed superannuation industry has welcomed the government’s decision to abandon amendments that would have introduced new regulat…
Australia’s corporate regulator has issued several warnings over the self-managed superannuation fund industry, in a report which targets …
A recent court case has demonstrated the limitations of the Tax Office’s power to collect tax. The case dealt with one of the Tax Commi…
The Australian Tax Office must have one monster computer system to store all the data it continues to accumulate! The use of data-matching (…
Family businesses are a very large part of the backbone of SMEs in Australia. How strange then that the term “family business” is not even d…
The Australian Tax Office has been using small business benchmarks for a number of years. This approach has not been without controversy, wi…
In a recent speech, the Assistant Treasurer, David Bradbury, indicated the federal government was not in a position to lower the current $1,…
Thousands of self-managed super funds continue to be set up. Their attractions seem to know no bounds. However, there are a large number of …
The small business capital gains tax concessions are valuable to many SMEs. They can reduce the value of capital gains on which tax must be …
A former self-managed superannuation fund advisor has been issued a suspended sentence of 18 months, while the ‘mastermind’ of more than…