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Accounting, Administration

Class releases trust administration product

class trust administration

Class has released a trust administration product that draws on its recent acquisitions and will integrate with its SMSF and investing platforms.

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Business News, Financial Planning

MetLife to support adviser mental health

metlife mental health

MetLife Australia has launched a campaign to help financial advisers recognise and seek help for signs of a decline in their mental health and that of their colleagues.

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Financial Planning

Adviser Ratings unveils ASX adviser tool

Adviser Ratings ASX

Adviser Ratings has launched a new Find An Adviser tool to help consumers find financial advisers who are ASX trading participants.

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Superannuation

SMSF death benefit rollover guidance issued

SMSF death benefit rollover

The ATO has expanded its guidance on how death benefit rollovers should be reported and payments made with specific instructions for SMSFs.

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Documentation

Topdocs unveils compliance tool

Topdocs SMSF compliance documents

Topdocs has released a wide-ranging SMSF document suite aimed at providing constantly updated information for advisers and their trustee clients.

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Retirement

Budget fails struggling retirees

pension taper rates

The federal budget has neglected retirees who had hoped to receive more income through a more lenient tapering of their asset test, a pension expert says.

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Superannuation

Multiple accounts cloud stapled super rule

Multiple accounts stapled super

A technical expert has questioned how the existence of multiple retirement savings accounts for one person will affect the new stapled super rule announced in the budget.

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ATO

ATO clarifies death benefit rollover details

death benefit rollover

The ATO has clarified the status of how death benefit rollovers should be reported and how payments should be made following changes which were made law in June of this year but backdated to 1 July 2017.

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Auditing

Routine and mechanical bar set extremely high

Routine mechanical SMSF audits

Proving the administration and accounting functions for an SMSF are being performed in a routine and mechanical fashion will be very difficult given the evidential standard the ATO has imposed on the sector.

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Accounting, Tax

TPB signs agreement with CPA Australia

TPB MOU CPA

The Tax Practitioners Board has signed a memorandum of understanding with CPA Australia, which will improve compliance monitoring of registered tax agents.

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