First published in the Financial Review on 12 September 2019. The Australian Taxation Office has started to issue letters to nearly 18,000 self-managed super fund trustees and their auditors as […]
The independent Review into the effectiveness of the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) provides an opportunity to identify some of the impediments in the regulatory advice system that prevents SMSF trustees […]
SMSF Association Submission The SMSF Association (SMSFA) welcomes the opportunity to make a submission on the review of the Tax Practitioners Board (TPB). As stated in our initial submission on […]
The Federal Government has struck the right balance between improving financial advice standards and giving the industry the necessary time to adjust, says SMSF Association CEO John Maroney. “The Government’s […]
The Reverend Tim Costello AO is stepping down as Patron of the SMSF Association. Costello, who succeeded Sir Anthony Mason, a former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, […]
First published in the Financial Review on 15 August 2019. Maximising your $1.6 million pension cap may backfire on your beneficiaries Strategies to work around the $1.6 million transfer balance cap (TBC) […]
The SMSF Association fully supports the decision by ASIC to disqualify or add conditions to the registration of 17 auditors of self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). Association CEO John Maroney says: […]
SMSF Association Submission The SMSF Association understands that the Government intends to establish a Retirement Income Review and would like to provide recommendations on key aspects that we believe should […]
ASIC’s Report 575 on improving the quality of advice and member experiences focused on whether advice providers are complying with the law when providing personal advice to retail clients to […]
There has been a sharp increase in the average and median establishment balances for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) – clear evidence that the quality of advice to the SMSF sector […]
