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The vacant residential land tax (VRLT) applies to all vacant residential land throughout Victoria from 1 January 2025. This tax can also apply to holiday homes unless the holiday home exemption (HH Exemption) or another exemption applies. What is VRLT? VRLT was originally introduced in 2017 to assist with housing affordability as overseas purchasers were [read more]
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The ATO has a program of auditing or reviewing certain approved SMSF auditors. If the ATO is satisfied with what they see, they can simply close their file. However, if the ATO is not satisfied, they have various options, including referring the approved SMSF auditor to ASIC. At the ASIC stage, ASIC then has various [read more]
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ASIC recently took action against a number of approved SMSF auditors. ASIC felt that the approved SMSF auditors’ conduct did not meet the required standards and the action taken by ASIC included: disqualifying some auditors; imposing additional conditions on some approved SMSF auditors ; and cancelling the registration of other approved SMSF auditors. For more [read more]
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