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Contents for October - December 2001



December 2001
21st ATO TNTSAB Banking and Finance Questions and Answers
21st CPA Online CPAs welcome new aggressive tax planning advice services
21st ALP Simon Crean - Doorstop Interview
Subjects: Governor-General, Superannuation
21st IFSA Submission:
Financial Services Reform Act - Corporations Amendment Regulations 2001
20th ASIC ASIC project to look at disclosure of fees and charges
20th ASIC ASIC releases policy statement on financial requirements
20th IFSA Submission:
IDPS/CGT/GST
20th ATO Assist Superannuation Surcharge and General Interest Charge (GIC)
18th Treasury FSR Regulations - Draft regulations under the second stage of the Financial Services Reform regulations
18th DOFA Minchin Welcomes Commonwealth Superannuation Initiative
18th ATO Assist Business News - Save yourself some trouble and pay superannuation regularly
17th ATO Assist Reasonable Benefit Limits Electronic Media Specification—version 7.2 Update
17th ACTU ACTU Super Newsletter - No.13 December 2001/January 2002
14th Treasury Tax Expenditures Statement 2001
14th Treasury Press Release - Release of Tax Expenditures Statement 2001
14th ATO Assist Late Lodgment Penalty on 1999-2000 year income tax returns for certain companies & superannuation funds
14th Treasurer Treasury Portfolio - Allocation of Ministerial Functions
14th ASFA ASFA welcomes new superannuation minister
13th Treasury Presentation to the First Superannuation Working Group Roundtable 13 December 2001
12th Senate Super Early Access to Superannuation Public Hearing 13 December 2001
12th ATO Assist The Tax Agent Newsletter - Issue 14 - December 2001
11th DEWRSB-MP's Ansett worker entitlements
10th IAA Super New Leadership for Actuaries
10th IFSA Submission:
Committee Reference - Early Access to Superannuation
10th CPA Online Self-managed super funds
10th AIST Coalition changes don't address big problems
6th ATO Assist SHAR individuals application for direct payment
6th ATO Assist ETP—CGT exempt component roll–over statement
6th Treasurer 2002-03 Pre-Budget Submissions
6th ASFA New ASFA research disproves recent super cost claims
6th APRA APRA obtains first enforceable undertaking from trustees of super fund
5th ATO Assist SuperUpdate newsletter November 2001
5th ATO Assist ETP pre-payment statement—payer instructions
5th ATO Assist SHAR instruction guide and deposit form
5th ATO Assist Superannuation Holding Accounts Reserve (SHAR) deposit form
5th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits (RBLs) instruction guide
5th ATO Assist ETP roll-over statement—industry standard for payers
5th ATO Assist Lost Members Register enquiry form
5th ATO Assist Self managed superannuation funds—preliminary statistics
5th ATO Assist Superannuation guarantee statement
5th Treasurer Transcript: Interview with Steve Price, 3AW
SUBJECTS: Interest rate cuts, economy, banks
4th ATO Assist Superannuation guarantee—employee notification of insufficient employer contributions
4th APRA APRA replaces super trustee
3rd ATO Assist ETP pre-payment statement—employees instructions
3rd ATO Assist ETP pre-payment statement—payer
3rd ATO Assist ETP roll-over statement—payer instructions
3rd ATO Assist Court disallows deductions for controlling interest superannuation schemes
December 2001
 
November 2001
30th ATO Assist ETP pre-payment statement—individuals instructions
30th ATO Assist Company And Superannuation Fund Income Tax Reminder Notices Issued During February 2001
30th Senate Super Super Funds in Rural and Regional Australia
29th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits—death benefits
29th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits—rebatable proportion
29th ASIC Policy statements and guidance paper:
ASIC releases policy statements and guidance paper for FSR legislation
28th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits—which benefits do not count
28th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits—commutations and residual capital values
28th ATO Assist Average Weekly Ordinary Time Earnings (AWOTE)
28th ASIC Media release:
ASIC releases policy statements and guidance paper for FSR legislation
28th ASFA New Privacy Guidelines - how do they affect super?
27th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits—pension and annuity standards
27th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits—indexation of transitional RBLs
27th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits—indexation of benefits
27th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits—valuation of pensions not payable for life
27th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits—general information
27th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits—how much counts
27th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits—15 February 1990 RBLs
27th ATO Assist Reasonable benefit limits—age discounting of the lump sum RBL
27th AIST Coalition's super reforms fall well short
27th ATO Assist Tax Withheld Calculator
26th ATO Assist Superannuation Entities - Change of Details
26th ATO Assist Application to Register for The New Tax System - Superannuation Entities
23rd IAA 2002 Presidential Address: Actuaries, Woozles and Heffalumps: Perspectives from the Hundred Acre Wood – H Martin
23rd ASIC ASIC calls for comment on options for invesment funds takeover relief
23rd ATO Assist How to find my lost superannuation (Lost Members Register)
20th IFSA Electronic Exchange of Superannuation Information Now A Reality
16th Senate Super Inquiry into early access to superannuation benefits
16th ASIC ASIC releases draft policy statement on financial requirements
16th FPA Financial planning takes centre stage in Brisbane next week
15th TIA Issues and Agendas - November 2001
14th APRA Update on superannuation returns
13th IFSA Charles Macek Appointed Honorary Member of IFSA
13th IFSA IFSA Announces Board Appointments
13th Treasurer Transcript: Interview with Kerri-Anne Kennerley - 2GB
SUBJECTS: Election 2001; economy; asylum seekers; Paul Keating; Jeff Kennett; superannuation; best friends
12th ICAA Time to Move Forward
12th FPA FPA sends congratulations to Prime Minister
9th IFSA 2001 Annual Report
8th Democrats Survey shows Coalition & Labor are not listening
8th APRA Speech - Institutional Self-Regulation: What Should be the Role of the Regulator? - Graeme Thompson
7th CPA Online Time to rethink Super Guarantee Tax say CPAs
7th AIST Election Update
6th TIA Taxation Institute of Australia calls for the abolition of super surcharge
6th ATO Assist Superannuation contributions surcharge transfers - common reporting errors
6th ICAA ICAA Unveils Election Wish List
6th Treasurer Transcript: Interview with Liam Bartlett, 6WF/ABC
SUBJECTS: Brian Cadd; Prime Ministership; border protection; interest rates; Telstra; Labor’s policy costings; Superannuation policy; Republic; Ari Ben-Menashe; families; Melbourne Cup.
6th APRA Call your super fund first for early release of super
5th IFSA Coalition's Superannuation Action Plan - A Step in the Right Direction
5th FPA FPA members call for retirement review in election survey
5th Treasurer Transcript: Doorstop Interview, Foyer, 6PR Studio, Perth
SUBJECTS: Coalition superannuation policy; asylum seekers; ANZ job ads; Denis Napthine; election; Melbourne Cup.
5th Treasurer Transcript: Interview with Paul Murray, 6PR
SUBJECTS: Singing; refugee policy; Beazley; Tampa; Rollbackwards; Prime Ministership; mass marketed schemes; Inspector General of Taxation; superannuation policy; economic management; Melbourne Cup.
5th ALP Kelvin Thomson - Howard's Desperate Last Minute Superannuation Tinkering
5th ALP Kim Beazley - Doorstop - Caravan Parks, Centrelink Overpayments, GST, Medicare Alliance, Asylum Seekers & Detention Centres, Cheryl Kernot Leaflet, Superannuation, Heroin Trials
5th ALP Kim Beazley, Simon Crean - Howard's Priorities Finally Revealed
5th ASFA Super proposals are small steps, not the strides we need - ASFA
2nd ATO Assist SuperUpdate newsletter October 2001
2nd APRA Speech - The Challenges of Regulating Superannuation - Jeffrey Carmichael
1st Treasurer Transcript: Doorstop Interview with The Hon Larry Anthony MP, Member for Richmond
SUBJECTS: US economy; Reserve Bank dividends; Public Sector superannuation contributions; Kim Beazley; Simon Crean; baby bonus; Richmond.
1st Treasurer Transcript: Interview with Peter Lloyd, AM, ABC Radio
SUBJECTS: Noodle Nation; Labor costings; Commonwealth superannuation; Reserve Bank raid; advertising.
1st ATO Assist Technical guide to instalment rates, notional tax and variations for superannuation funds
1st ALP Kim Beazley - ABC Radio, AM - Knowledge Nation, Campaign Launch Speech, Bob Hogg & David Love Comments, Superannuation Savings Commitment
November 2001
 
October 2001
31st Treasurer Transcript: Interview with Steve Price, 3AW
SUBJECTS: ALP campaign launch; Beazley; Labor ads; superannuation; private school funding; jobs; First Child Tax Refund; interest rates; surplus Budgets; Crean funny money; Telstra; Jonathon Shier.
31st Treasurer Transcript: Doorstop Interview, Bendigo
SUBJECTS: Telstra; Calder Freeway; Maurie Sharkey; superannuation
31st ALP Simon Crean, Lindsay Tanner - Labor's Better Government Priorities
31st AIST Fear and voting
31st AIST Certification will overcome criticism
31st AIST Superannuation - the forgotten issue
30th ATO Assist Superannuation Surcharge Member Contributions Statement (MCS) version 5.0
30th ATO Assist Superannuation Surcharge Assessment Variation Advice Statement (AVA) version 7.0
30th ATO Assist Superannuation surcharge for members of accumulated benefits and funded defined benefits providers
30th ATO Assist Termination payments surcharge
30th APRA APRA gains civil penalty orders against Wes Lofts Superannuation Pty Ltd
29th Treasurer Transcript: Interview with John Laws, 2UE
SUBJECTS: First Child Tax Refund; self-funded retirees; superannuation; Telstra; Rollback.
29th ATO Assist Superannuation surcharge for members of unfunded defined benefits providers
29th ALP Simon Crean - Sky TV - Election, Budget, BAS, Tax, Superannuation, Foreign Investment, Ansett, Schools, GST, Schools, Telstra
28th ALP Simon Crean - Howard's 7% Tax Slug For Small Business, Retirees
26th ALP Kim Beazley - Labor's Plan For Older Australians
25th ATO Assist Superannuation contributions surcharge—how to report transfers of contributions
25th ASIC ASIC launches financial services consumer education strategy
25th APRA APRA appoints acting trustee to superannuation fund
24th Treasurer Transcript: Debate, National Press Club, Canberra
SUBJECTS: Economic management; tax; debt; Rollbackwards; Snowy Mountains Electricity Commission funny money; tax avoidance; exchange rate; superannuation
24th ATO Assist Superannuation surcharge for members of constitutionally protected funds
23rd ICAA Peter Costello's 'head in the sand' rejection of superannuation reform will hurt the Coalition says ICAA
22nd Treasurer Transcript: Interview with Jeremy Cordeaux, 5DN
SUBJECTS: Election campaign; Rollback; Tax Reform; exports; Debits Tax; Malcolm Fraser; boat people; Prime Minister; economic management; interest rates; exchange rate; self-funded retirees; superannuation; GST rate; First Home Owners Grant; South Australian politics; preferences; leadership
22nd CPA Online CPA Australia warns of tough stance from APRA
19th IAA Submission to Productivity Commission in response to Draft Report on Superannuation
19th AIST SRI Update
18th Treasurer Transcript: Interview with Alan Jones, 2UE
SUBJECTS: Deployment of troops, Budget surplus, conscription, disability pensions, Inspector-General of Taxation, savings, marginal tax rates, superannuation
18th AIST Joe's insidious issues paper
17th ALP Kim Beazley - Labor's Plan For Financial Services And Regulation
16th ATO Assist Superannuation surcharge for individuals
15th ACTU ACTU Submission On Productivity Commission Review Of Superannuation
13th ALP Kim Beazley - The Association of Independent Retirees
12th ACTU ACTU Super Newsletter - No.12 October/November 2001
12th ASIC ASIC acts to protect superannuation funds
11th ARISA ARISA announces expansion of its training services
11th ALP Kim Beazley - Labor's Plan for Job Security
11th ALP Kim Beazley, Arch Bevis, Cheryl Kernot - Doorstop - Labor's Plan For Job Security, John Howard's Retirement Plans, Ansett, Property Tax, Liberal Party Dirty Tricks, Ross Lightfoot
11th APRA Annual Report - Year 2001
10th ASFA Marginal electorates support abolition of super taxes
10th APRA APRA calls for on-time lodgement of 2001 super returns
9th ALP Kelvin Thomson - Democrats Wrong On Super
8th ATO Assist Termination payments surcharge on employer termination payments taken in cash
8th ATO Assist Superannuation contributions surcharge on employer termination payments rolled-over
8th Treasury Regulations under the Financial Services Reform Bill
4th AIST Tax-free, it was a Clayton's Commission
4th MP Fin.Serv. Strengthening Audit Independence
4th ASFA ASFA launches 'Super Smart Planner' - first of its kind
3rd IAA Actuaries Caution on Unintended Impacts of Super Safety Measures
3rd DOFA-Super New legislation for twice yearly indexation of Commonwealth superannuation pensions
3rd DOFA-Super New legislation for pension commutations to pay post retirement surcharge assessments
3rd MP Fin.Serv. Letter: to The Australian Financial Review
2nd Treasury Options for Improving the Safety of Superannuation: Issues Paper
2nd IAA Ignore the Ageing Population at Our Peril
2nd ALP Kelvin Thomson - Hockey's Superannuation Announcement - Confused And Inadequate
2nd MP Fin.Serv. Speech: Address to the Australian Banking and Finance - PeopleSoft Lecture
2nd MP Fin.Serv. Transcript: Issues paper on safety of superannuation
2nd MP Fin.Serv. Superannuation to be Made Safer
2nd ASFA Hockey options paper - ASFA warns safety not the only issue
2nd APRA APRA welcomes superannuation options paper
2nd APRA APRA commences action against Wes Lofts Superannuation Pty Ltd
October 2001



 
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