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2024
8 November 2024 - The attached file is a supplementary joint submission lodged with the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services on behalf of CPA Australia, CA ANZ, IPA and SMSF Association.
4 October 2024 - CPA Australia's responses to questions on notice arising from hearings in relation to the inquiry into wholesale investor and wholesale client tests.
30 September 2024 - Joint submission to the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee on the new Aged Care Bill, made on behalf of CPA Australia, CA ANZ and IPA.
8 July 2024 - A joint submission on behalf of CPA Australia (and CA ANZ) in response to Treasury's consultation on draft regulations in regards to Delivering Better Financial Outcomes Tranche 1.
26 April 2024 - Submission to Senate Economics Legislation Committee on behalf of CPA Australia and Chartered Accountants ANZ in response to their inquiry on the Treasury Laws Amendment (Delivering Better Financial Outcomes and Other Measures) Bill 2024
8 March 2024 - CPA Australia, CA ANZ and the SMSF Association make this submission to the Department of Health and Aged Care in response to their consultation on a new Aged Care Act.
27 February 2024 - A joint submission on behalf of CPA Australia, with CA ANZ, IPA and the SMSF Association in response to Treasury's consultation on amendments to certain legislative instruments related to financial advisers.
10 January 2024
2023
29 September 2023 - Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand (CA ANZ), CPA Australia, the Institute of Public Accountants and the SMSF Association (the Joint Associations) welcome the opportunity to provide comments on the review of the regulatory framework for managed investment schemes consultation.
July 28 2023 - We strongly support the recommendations and proposals in Interim Report C and the ongoing efforts of the Australian Law Reform Commission to investigate how to simplify (by reframing and restructuring) the financial services law.
2022
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February 2022
2021
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2020
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27 March 2020
12 February 2020
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2019
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Regulations for financial planning
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Regulation of SMSF advice
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