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  1. AFSA takes former Mackay Goodwin trustee to Federal Court

    of more than $4 million between 2021–2023. According to AFSA, Leroy was deregistered as a registered trustee last year and was now seeking court action to declare he had breached his duties, was not a fit and proper person to act as a bankruptcy trustee...

  2. AFSA sharpens teeth as personal insolvency numbers rise

    And, addressing the Australian Restructuring Insolvency & Turnaround Association national conference on the Gold Coast last week, he called upon the profession to help stamp out “untrustworthy advisers”. “We will not accept those who harm vulnerable...

  3. AFSA reports spike in personal insolvencies in June quarter

    Authority indicate that personal insolvencies across Australia have increased 13.1 per cent compared with the same period last year. A total of 3,596 new personal insolvencies were recorded in the 3-month period to June 2026, compared to 3,179 in June...

  4. AFSA puts insolvency practitioners on notice over ‘system misuse’

    noted that AFSA had already taken recent action in this area, including an application it made to the Federal Court last year regarding a personal insolvency agreement it considered to be unreasonable. In its decision in February, the Federal Court set...

  5. AFP unleashes taskforce to chase billions in money laundering

    it said. Recent investigations had revealed one Sydney gang laundered $1 million every hour for three to five hours last year. The AFP said it had uncovered a web of complex arrangements including: Students, foreign nationals and others going from one...

  6. AFP seizes $15.8m from Plutus Payroll founder

    tax and goods and services tax owed to the ATO. The 38-year-old was sentenced to seven years and six months in jail in July last year, with a non-parole period of five years. Mr Anquetil’s confiscated assets can now be sold, with proceeds to be...

  7. AFCA reveals new chair

    Tribunal, to provide a single external dispute resolution service. “Helen has been an exceptional chair of AFCA over the last three years, establishing AFCA as an important national body, helping industry and thousands of consumers to resolve often...

  8. AFCA reports significant drop in inappropriate advice claims

    service had seen a sharp rise in complaints about general insurance in a period that included an earthquake in Victoria last September, followed by catastrophic storms and flooding across southern states last October and in South-East Queensland and...

  9. AFCA receives more than 70,000 financial complaints for 2020–21

    More than 70,000 financial complaints were received over the last 12 months, down by 12 per cent compared with the 2019–20 financial year. The Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA) on Monday revealed that it had received 70,510 financial...

  10. AFCA racks up $1bn in refunds, reappoints CEO

    natural disasters and scams.” This financial year AFCA is on track to receive close to 100,000 complaints, up from 70,000 last year, and almost double the level of its predecessors in their final year of operation. Professor Pollaers said the body had...

  11. AFCA helps small business reclaim $23m, disputes up 9%

    is surprised by a fall in complaints over business loans. Small businesses made almost 4,000 complaints to AFCA in the last financial year, up 9 per cent, and won more than $23 million in compensation and refunds, the authority says. Disputes over...

  12. AFCA extends legacy complaints to 2008

    Small businesses harmed by financial misconduct over the last decade have been urged to lodge a complaint with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority after ASIC approved the legacy change. The corporate regulator has approved changes to the...

  13. Advocacy group pushes for tax changes to improve worker shortages

    the workforce, specifically pensioners, veterans, and students on the Youth Allowance,” said Mr Davidson. In November last year, the federal government made permanent minor changes to the pension work bonus. “These reforms only allow age pensioners and...

  14. Advisory is for EVERY client

    online software such as Cash Flow Story, the process simplifies right down to the following: Get a copy of your client's last two sets of accounts Input the three most recent years into Cash Flow Story Email your client their Power of One directly out...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Content Partner
    • Category: Business
  15. Advising an ASX listed company? 5 tips you need to know about non-bank funding

    funding is likely to meet your business needs in an ever-changing environment. 1: Unique loan structure and flexibility The last 5 years has seen traditional banks shifting towards tighter lending criteria, thus triggering the rise of non-bank lenders...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: ORB Alternative
    • Category: Business
  16. Advisers warned on tax traps with family trust beneficiaries: CGW

    pitfalls that can arise for advisers with family discretionary trusts. Speaking at the CGW annual adviser conference last week, Walrut and Silcock said the process of determining the beneficiaries and their obligations in trust deeds could often pose...

  17. Advisers warned on liability risks with DIN process

    should update their procedures for setting up companies now to avoid hefty penalties, said an industry law firm. In June last year, the government passed laws introducing the requirement for all directors of a company in Australia to have a director...

  18. Advisers urged to proactively engage on TPRS awareness

    said awareness among clients continue to be low, an observation similarly shared by Direct Management director Diane Lucas last year. “Well, this is still an area wherein clients don’t realise they have an obligation, so we do appreciate the lists that...

  19. Advisers must prepare for TBC indexation

    are expected to be released at the end of January. However, as ATO deputy commissioner James O’Halloran explained in August last year, once indexation occurred, there would no longer be a single TBC applying to all super fund members, meaning each would...

    • Type: Article
    • Author: Sarah Kendell
    • Category: Business
  20. Advisers brace for 'relaunch' of R&D tax incentive

    with research organisations and universities — there will be additional benefits undertaking R&D with those bodies. “And the last one is better administration — this is something the adviser body group has been asking for quite a while and claimants...