Articles by Darin Tyson-Chan

ATO

ATO can monitor work test

ATO work test

The ATO has the ability to determine if people over the age of 66 who have made personal super contributions have satisfied the required work test.

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Financial Planning

Communicating value of advice now critical

financial advice value

The experience in overseas markets like the UK shows communicating the value of advice will be key to the pursuit of success for practitioners.

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ATO

Annual return enforcement upped

SMSF annual return enforcement

SMSF trustees who are failing to meet their legal obligation of lodging their fund’s annual return are to face new ATO enforcement procedures.

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Financial Planning, Regulation

Government committed to red tape reduction

financial advice red tape

Reducing the amount of red tape hampering the provision of cost-effective financial advice will be a major focus of the quality of advice review.

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ATO

First return compliance alarming

SMSF annual return ATO

The failure of trustees to lodge their SMSF’s first annual return is continuing to be a problematic compliance area for the ATO.

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Investments

Carbon emissions milestone for La Trobe

La Trobe Financial carbon

Specialist fund manager La Trobe Financial has achieved an ESG milestone after undertaking an assessment of its own environmental impact.

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Accounting, Financial Planning

Legs and regs challenge worsens

regulation SMSF accountants

Legislation and regulations regarding the provision of financial advice are proving to be an increasing challenge for accountants servicing SMSFs.

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Financial Planning, Retirement

RI covenant raises advice issue

SMSFs retirement advice

The advice SMSFs will need for retirement income covenant compliance could be problematic given the unlicensed status of many sector advisers.

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Compliance

Trustees lagging on new duty

trustees financial interest duty

Trustees seem to have been slow in adopting measures to document how they are considering complying with the best financial interest duty.

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Auditing

Audit fee threshold rejected again

audit fees threshold

The proposal to introduce a hard limit on audit fees originating from one referral source has been opposed by the SMSF Association.

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