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June 2001
30^th	SCT	Bulletin Issue No.24 - 1 April 2001 - 30 June 2001
29^th	ATO Assist	Special Tax Table for Aged Pensioners and Low Income Aged Person (Senior Australians)
29^th	ATO Assist	Pay As You Go (PAYG) Withholding Special Tax Table for Aged Pensioners and Low Income Aged Persons (Senior Australians)
29^th	MP Fin.Serv.	New Corporations Law to come into effect on 15 July
29^th	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Saturday, 23 June - Friday, 29 June 2001
29^th	FPA	FPA welcomes alienation proposal
29^th	DOFA-Super	Legislation concerning Proposed Pension Indexation Changes
29^th	DOFA-Super	New contribution and interest rates available online in the Productivity Benefits Circular
29^th	IAA	Submission to ASIC re FSRB Policy Proposal Papers
29^th	Democrats	Up to 50,000 pensioners could lose their pensions
29^th	Democrats	LABOR DOES IT AGAIN - Second Vote against same-sex couples in a week
28^th	Democrats	Senator Allison speaks to the Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Amendment Bill 2001: Second Reading
27^th	ATO Assist	Tax facts - Federal budget 2001
27^th	Democrats	Last ditch MP super bill inadequate
27^th	ASFA	ASFA seeks talks on 'political vacuum' as ad campaign draws strong response
26^th	DOFA	Parliamentary Superannuation Amendments
25^th	APRA	APRA testimony at Senate committee hearing
25^th	Democrats	CALL TO ACTION: Democrats to lobby for prompt action on Mass Marketed Tax Schemes
22^nd	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Saturday, 16 June - Friday, 22 June 2001
22^nd	ATO TNTSAB	Refunding imputation credits: Superannuation funds, approved deposit funds and pooled superannuation trusts
22^nd	Senate Super	Prudential Supervision and Consumer Protection for Superannuation, Banking and Financial Services Public Hearing with APRA
22^nd	ATO Assist	SuperReport Main Page
22^nd	ATO Assist	SuperReport Frequently Asked Questions
21^st	ATO Assist	Fourth Quarterly Business Activity Statement In The Mail
21^st	APRA	APRA’s submission to Productivity Commission - Review of Superannuation Legislation
20^th	ATO Assist	Refund of Imputation Credits - are you entitled to a refund?
20^th	ATO Assist	Refunding imputation credits - Individual shareholders and beneficiaries
19^th	ASFA	ASFA instrumental in divorce and super legislation
18^th	Democrats	Senator Allison speaks to the Family Law Legislation Amendment (Superannuation) Bill 2001: Second Reading
18^th	ATO Assist	Deadline for Superannuation Contributions
18^th	ASFA	ASFA launches TV ad campaign as research confirms super an election issue
18^th	ALP	Kim Beazley - Doorstop Interview Subjects: Government Advertising, Electoral Rolls, Fuel Tax Inquiry Inaction, HIH Royal Commission Inaction, Superannuation
15^th	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Saturday, 9 June - Friday, 15 June 2001
14^th	ICAA	ICAA calls for an end to selective tax punishment of self funded retirees
14^th	ALP	Kelvin Thomson - Labor To Include Prudential Supervision In Super Review
13^th	MP Fin.Serv.	Financial Sector Levies for 2001-02
13^th	Senate Super	Prudential Supervision and Consumer Protection for Superannuation, Banking and Financial Services (Case Study of Solicitors' Mortgage Schemes in Tasmania) Public Hearing 15 June 2001
13^th	APRA	APRA’s advances in regulation
12^th	ALP	Kelvin Thomson - Evidence To Senate Committee On Failures Of HIH And CNAL
8^th	ATO Assist	Only Weeks To Go For Older Australians To Claim Savings Bonus
8^th	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Saturday, 2 June - Friday, 8 June 2001
8^th	ATO Assist	Tax Office To Refund Excess Tax On Eligible Termination Payments
7^th	Democrats	MP’s Superannuation Reform must include gay couples
7^th	ATO Assist	Assistant Commissioner SES Band 1 Superannuation Business Line Canberra
7^th	ALP	Coalition Mean And Tricky On Military Superannuation
7^th	Senate Super	Prudential Supervision and Consumer Protection for Superannuation, Banking and Financial Services (Case Study of Commercial Nominees Australia Limited (CNAL) and Solicitors' Mortgage Schemes in Tasmania) Public Hearing 12 June 2001
6^th	ALP	Simon Crean - Shadow Treasurer - Doorstop Interview Subjects: GDP Figures, Petrol Prices, Superannuation, Welfare Fraud
6^th	ASIC	ASX submission to Senate Select Committee
6^th	ATO Assist	Lodgment Rules 2001-02 - Key Dates
6^th	Treasurer	National Accounts: March Quarter 2001
5^th	APRA	APRA testimony at Senate estimates hearings
5^th	ALP	Kim Beazley - Doorstop Interview Subjects: Politicians Superannuation, BHP-Billiton Merger, Opinion Polls, Kevin Rudd/Foreign Policy, NZ Becoming A State Of Australia, US Nuclear Tests, One.Tel
4^th	ATO Assist	Tax facts - Federal budget 2001
4^th	IAA	Discount Rates Taskforce Report
4^th	Democrats	Democrats test newfound support for super reform
1^st	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Saturday, 26 May - Friday, 1 June 2001
1^st	ICAA	GST Causes Spike in Accountancy Recruitment
1^st	IAA	Letter to Treasury re Super Complaints Tribunal
1^st	ATO Assist	Capital Gains Tax (CGT) Schedule Instructions & Worksheets
June 2001

May 2001
31^st	CPA Online	The taxing question of Personal Services Income
31^st	CPA Online	Top 12 tax tips (and traps) for small business
31^st	ATO Assist	SuperUpdate - May 2001
31^st	ASIC	Electronic applications for life insurance and superannuation products
30^th	ATO Assist	ATO Forms on the Internet
30^th	ATO Assist	Don't Get Caught in a Quick Tax Fix
30^th	AIST	Wish list provides super industry with funding challenge
30^th	AIST	ASFA reacts to misuse of investment terminology
30^th	AIST	What's really on trustees minds?
30^th	AIST	Absolutely FABulous
30^th	AIST	Trustees should be paid: survey
30^th	AIST	Getting Employers to Cough Up
30^th	AIST	Member preferences should drive corporate fund alternatives
30^th	AIST	APRA warns trustees to shape up or be prosecuted
30^th	CPA Online	CPA Australia commends Crean's committment to bipartisanship
29^th	ATO TNTSAB	3 new fact sheets: Business Tax Reform - Refunding Excess Imputation Credits
29^th	ATO TNTSAB	New fact sheet: Business Tax Reform - Life Insurance and Pooled Superannuation Insurers
29^th	ATO Assist	Tax Practitioner Satellite Seminars - 22 May 2001
29^th	Treasurer	Transcript: Interview with Andrew Carroll - Radio 4QR - Subjects: Interest Rates, GST, Port Arthur, Self-Funded Retirees, Austudy
25^th	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Saturday, 19 May - Friday, 25 May 2001
25^th	IAA	Letter to Treasury re Super Quarterly Payments
24^th	ATO Assist	Losses Schedule Instructions
24^th	Senate Super	Report: Issues arising from the committee's report on Taxation Laws Amendment (Superannuation Contributions) Bill 2000
24^th	ALP	Short Changed Again - Women and the 2001/2 Federal Budget
23^rd	ATO Assist	Death or Disability Deduction - Superannuation
23^rd	FPA	Federal budget good for retirees but lacks long term retirement incomes strategy
23^rd	Treasurer	Transcript: Radio 3LO - Interview with Jon Faine - Subjects: Budget
23^rd	Treasurer	Transcript: Address to the National Press Club, Canberra - Subjects: Questions and Answers
23^rd	Treasurer	Transcript: A Current Affair - Interview with Mike Munro - Subjects: Budget
23^rd	Treasurer	Transcript: Radio 5DN - Interview with Jeremy Cordeaux - Subjects: Budget
23^rd	Treasurer	Transcript: Radio 2SM - Interview with Howard Sattler - Subjects: Budget
23^rd	Treasurer	Transcript: Radio National - Interview with Kathy Vanextel - Subjects: Budget
23^rd	Treasurer	Transcript: Interview with Philip Clark - Radio 2GB - Subjects: Budget
23^rd	Treasurer	Transcript: Interview with Ross Stevenson – Radio 3AW - Subjects: Budget
23^rd	Treasurer	Transcript: Radio 2UE - Interview with John Laws - Subjects: Budget
23^rd	Treasurer	Transcript: Today Show with Tracey Grimshaw - Subjects: Budget, Older Australians, Pensioners, Self-Funded Retirees, Roll-Back, Election
23^rd	DOFA-Super	Changes announced to pension indexation arrangements for Commonwealth civilian superannuation schemes
23^rd	ICAA	ICAA sees little excitement for business in Budget
23^rd	ASFA	Two out of three ain't bad - but still no long-term vision
23^rd	AIST	Federal Budget 2001
23^rd	IAA	The Future of Corporate Super Funds
23^rd	Supercorp	Federal Budget 2001-2002 Superannuation Highlights
22^nd	Assistant Treasurer	Reduction In Surcharge On Certain Termination Payments
22^nd	Assistant Treasurer	Non-Complying Superannuation Funds
22^nd	Treasurer	Senior Australians: Increase In Effective Tax Free Threshold
22^nd	Treasurer	Pensioners Below Seniors Age: Increase In Effective Tax Free Threshold
22^nd	Treasurer	Senior Australians And Pensioners: Increase In Medicare Levy Threshold
22^nd	Treasurer	Capital Gains Tax Relief for Shareholders of Listed Investment Companies
22^nd	Treasurer	Transcript: Nine Network - Interview with Laurie Oakes - Subjects: Budget, Self-Funded Retirees, Pensioners, Motor Cars, Welfare, Rollback
22^nd	Treasurer	Transcript: Interview with Glenn Milne - 7 Network - Subjects: Budget
22^nd	Treasurer	Transcript: 7.30 Report with Kerry O’Brien - Subjects: Older Australians, Budget Surplus, Growth Forecasts, Welfare Reform
22^nd	Treasurer	Transcript: Budget Lock-up Press Conference - Subjects: Budget
22^nd	Treasurer	Transcript: Interview by Katherine McGrath, ABC Radio - Subjects: Budget, Election, Building Industry, Surplus, Self-Funded Retirees, Child Care, Pensioners, Motor Industry, Unemployment
22^nd	DOFA	2001-02 Major Budget Initiatives in the Finance and Administration Portfolio
22^nd	ALP	Kelvin Thomson - Superannuation Means-Test Backflip
22^nd	ATO Assist	Reduction to Surcharge on Certain Termination Payments
22^nd	CPA Online	Business Tax Reform education not adequately addressed, say CPAs
22^nd	ASFA	Some budget wins, but lacks foresight - ASFA
22^nd	MP Fin.Serv.	Superannuation Complaints Tribunal
22^nd	AIST	Federal Budget Announcement
21^st	IAA	Letter to Hockey re FSRB, Disclosure and Super Choice
21^st	ARISA	ARISA urges Productivity Commission to increase competition in the Retirement Income Streams Market
18^th	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Saturday, 12 May - Friday, 18 May 2001
18^th	ATO Assist	The Tax Agent Newsletter - Special Edition April/May 2001
17^th	ATO Assist	Schedule 25A Instructions
17^th	ATO Assist	Fund Income Tax & Regulatory Return Instructions - 2001
17^th	ASIC	Investment adviser permanently banned
17^th	ASFA	Budget - ASFA cautiously optimistic
16^th	ATO Assist	Superannuation Contributions Surcharge - Electronic Validation Changes
16^th	ATO Assist	Superannuation Contributions Surcharge - New reporting requirements from 1 July 2001
15^th	ATO Assist	Superannuation guarantee - who is an employer
15^th	ATO Assist	Superannuation guarantee (SG) - How to understand & meet your SG Obligations
15^th	ATO Assist	Superannuation Guarantee – the facts for employees. What the Superannuation Guarantee means to you
15^th	Senate Super	Prudential Supervision and Consumer Protection for Superannuation, Banking and Financial Services - Case Study of Solicitors' Mortgage Schemes in Tasmania - Public Hearing - 18 May 2001
14^th	ATO Assist	TFNs and the Superannuation Surcharge
14^th	ASFA	Few super funds at risk - ASFA and APRA agree
13^th	ASFA	ASFA's response to Macfarlane
11^th	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Saturday, 5 May - Friday, 11 May 2001
11^th	FPA	PM promises answer on alienation in 3 weeks. Today's meeting positive.
11^th	IAA	Submission to the Productivity Commission Review of Certain Superannuation Legislation
10^th	ATO Assist	Superannuation surcharge error manual for acknowledgment reports V7
10^th	ALP	Stephen Conroy - Financial Services Reform Bill - Clayton Utz Breakfast
9^th	ATO Assist	Fund Income and Regulatory Return
9^th	ATO Assist	Schedule 25A 2001
9^th	ATO Assist	Losses schedule 2001
9^th	ATO Assist	Family trust election and/or family trust revocation 2001
9^th	ATO Assist	Depreciation schedule 2001
9^th	ATO Assist	2001 Capital Gains Tax (CGT) Schedule
8^th	TIA	Some Sanity Returns: Taxation Institute of Australia Welcomes Lodgement Extensions
8^th	ATO Assist	SuperUpdate - April Issue
8^th	ATO Assist	Tax Practitioner Lodgement Program for Business Activity Statement
4^th	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Saturday, 28 April - Friday, 4 May 2001
4^th	FPA	FPA Chairman to meet with Prime Minister over alienation
3^rd	ASFA	Three Budget changes that would give hope on super
2^nd	ATO Assist	The Tax Agent Newsletter - Edition 11 March 2001
2^nd	AIST	Seminars target trustee "knowledge gap"
1^st	ATO Assist	Taxation ...... Current Issues and Future Directions
May 2001

April 2001
30^th	ARISA	ARISA Announces New CEO
30^th	ATO Assist	Canberra ATPF Minutes of 6 March 2001
30^th	ALP	Kelvin Thomson - Senate Committee Support For Quarterly Superannuation Guarantee Payments
27^th	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Saturday, 21 April - Friday, 27 April 2001
27^th	IAA	2001 Convention Homepage
27^th	Senate Super	Committee calls for improvements to the Superannuation Guarantee - Recommends move to Quarterly Payments and more action by the ATO
27^th	Senate Super	Report: Enforcement of the Superannuation Guarantee Charge
24^th	Treasurer	Consumer Price Index - March Quarter 2001
20^th	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Friday, 13 April - Friday, 20 April 2001
20^th	FPA	FPA accuses ATO of unfair play
19^th	ATO TNTSAB	Seniors - Fact Sheets Bonuses for Older Australians - Claim form (Nat 3086), Tax Reform and Age and other Pensioners (Nat 2922), Tax reform and benefits for self-funded retirees (Nat 2923), Self-Funded Retirees Supplementary Bonus (Nat 2925)
19^th	ATO Assist	Alienation of personal services income rules: new transitional arrangements
18^th	ATO Assist	Tax Office grants extensions to register transitional reasonable benefit limits
18^th	AIST	Letter to the Editor - AFR
12^th	IFSA	'Rich', retiring, Raring to go ...but are we ready to handle the biggest retirement boom in history?
12^th	ACTU	Government must guarantee sacked apprentices’ missing super payments
12^th	ALP	Kelvin Thomson - Choice Of Fund - Another BAS
12^th	ALP	Kelvin Thomson - Another Cosy Government Democrat Deal?
12^th	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Saturday, 7 April - Thursday, 12 April 2001
11^th	Democrats	Democrats challenge PM to act on MPs’ super scheme
11^th	ICAA	Change super rules that disadvantage the unemployed
11^th	ALP	Kim Beazley - Paul Murray - Radio 6PR, Perth - GST, Rollback, Budplan Investment, Industrial Relations, Gold Card, Politicians Superannuation, Asylum Seekers, Labor Party Policy, Apology To The Aboriginal People, Fremantle Artillery Barracks, Superannuation Levy
10^th	AIST	You say your're Ethical But...
10^th	AIST	Need for a third umpire in assessing trustee performance
10^th	AIST	CMSF - highlight of the trustee year
10^th	AIST	Trustee Election Wish List Targets the Surcharge
10^th	AIST	Ashe to leave State Super Board
10^th	AIST	Trustee Payment Essential: AIST Survey
10^th	AIST	Shaking up Corporate Australia
10^th	AIST	Should super change corporate Australia?
10^th	AIST	Trustees prepared for Labor's voting challenge
10^th	ALP	Simon Crean - John Stanley - Radio 2UE, Sydney - Superannuation, Cheryl Kernot's Comments
10^th	Treasurer	Transcript: Sophie Panopoulos, Cheryl Kernot, Natasha Stott-Despoja, election timing, superannuation, GST, Labor Party ineptitude
10^th	Treasurer	Transcript: Labor Leadership, Superannuation, Rollback, Sophie Panopoulos
10^th	ASFA	Super - we only really get 6% towards our retirement
9^th	DEWRSB-MP's	Labor's Super hit on Small Business
9^th	ALP	Kim Beazley - Superannuation, Cheryl Kernot, Centenary Of Federation Sitting Of Parliament, Rollback, Economy
9^th	ALP	Simon Crean - Howard's Superannuation Diversion
9^th	ALP	Simon Crean - Howard Sattler - Interview 2SM, Sydney - Democrats Leadership, Superannuation
9^th	ALP	Simon Crean - Mark Willacy - ABC Radio AM - Democrats Leadership, Superannuation
8^th	ALP	Simon Crean - PM's Desperation Tactics On Superannuation
6^th	AIST	Committee Warns APRA about Its Heavy Handed Approach
6^th	ATO Assist	Register of Binding Advice
6^th	Treasurer	2001-2002 Budget – Media Lockup Arrangements
6^th	FPA	FPA Weekly Media Digest - (super related overview) Saturday, 31 March - Friday, 6 April 2001
5^th	MP Fin.Serv.	Financial Services Reform Bill - Transitional Arrangements
5^th	MP Fin.Serv.	Hockey Introduces Financial Services Reform Bill
5^th	FPA	Landmark laws boost consumer protection in financial services industry
5^th	Senate Super	Committee responds to calls for a fair go for Commonwealth Public Sector and Defence Force Superannuants Recommends Review of Indexation Method
5^th	Senate Super	Committee Warns APRA About Its Heavy Handed Approach
5^th	Senate Super	Report: A ‘Reasonable and Secure’ Retirement? The benefit design of Commonwealth public sector and defence force unfunded superannuation funds and schemes
2^nd	ASIC	Canberra investment adviser banned for life
1^st	IFSA	Investment and Financial Services Association Limited’s annual conference 31/7 - 2/8 2001
April 2001

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