This paper looks at several things with respect to getting value into an SMSF. First, it looks at recent budget changes that will increase the amount of contributions that can be made to a SMSF. Secondly, it looks at ‘vanilla' or traditional strategies currently used in practice to get value...

Infrastructure in Australia is under strain from two influences. First, the existing limited infrastructure is unable to keep pace with economic growth and, secondly, the demand for health and welfare infrastructure because of an ageing population. Yet, there are no special rules for the...

The way that the Australian tax system taxes infrastructure projects means that the tax losses that are created from the early stage expenses in a project are not used by the project sponsor until some time in the future. That means that the net present value of those losses is less than the...

Both the United States and Australia have multi-pillar retirement systems that include a public component and a private component. Increasingly, the private component consists of a defined contribution plan. At the outset, this paper provides an overview of the retirement systems of the U.S. and...

Changes in 2001 to the tax laws for Hybrid securities occurred at the same time as proposed accounting, regulatory and ratings agency changes for those types of securities. The tax law changes appear to have had their intended effect on the targeted Hybrid securities, Income Securities, but it...

Infrastructure in Australia is under strain from two influences. First, the existing limited infrastructure is unable to keep pace with economic growth and, secondly, the demand for health and welfare infrastructure because of an ageing population.There are no special rules for the taxation of...

Recent reform of the Australian laws for taxing financial instruments are expressed in terms of risk for the purpose of identifying the relevant taxpayer or characterising a financial arrangement, rather than using the traditional drafting terms of legal ownership by a taxpayer or legal form of...

The Superannuation Industry Supervision Act 1993 (Cth) (the SIS Act) has been amended from 1 July 2013 to require the trustees of Australian superannuation funds to have regard and consider the taxation consequences of their investment strategy. In spite of the literature strongly supporting the...

The article presents the findings of primary research carried out in Ghana and Senegal, which revisited the main assumptions behind the African Rural Energy Enterprise Development (AREED) initiative (2002–2012), and other donor-backed programmes, designed to promote small and medium-sized...