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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 12, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Michelle Bowes

    Not ‘good enough’: Only eight super funds pass muster on retirement (opens the original)

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    Just eight superannuation funds out of 45 assessed have passed a test based on how well they support members when they reach retirement. The 2026 Epic Retirement Tick test, designed by super research house Chant West and the Epic Retirement Institute, was based on an expanded 20 criteria checklist (up from 18 last year) of factors considered important to pre-retirees and retirees. Gift articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.

  2. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Michelle Bowes

    Why swapping the desk for a backpack is the perfect middle-age escape (opens the original)

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    With the reverence of a priest and the precision of a surgeon, the waiter at Maido carves a glistening slab of tuna belly tableside to combine with sushi rice, sea urchin and soy-cured egg yolks. The restaurant, in Lima’s upscale Miraflores district, took the top spot on the 2025 World’s 50 Best Restaurants list serving chef Mitsuharu ‘Micha’ Tsumura’s 12-course reimagining of Nikkei cuisine – a style fusing Peruvian and Japanese traditions. (The 2026 list will be announced in November in Peru.)

  3. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Michelle Bowes

    No parties, no pets: More ways the ATO is denying holiday home deductions (opens the original)

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    “No parties, no pets.” They are common rules anyone who has rented a holiday home would be familiar with, but imposing such caveats now puts holiday home owners at risk of losing valuable tax deductions. They are conditions Melbourne-based Monique Dyer, 56, has in place when renting out the holiday home she owns with her partner, Angela, in the Queensland town of Hervey Bay. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.

  4. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Michelle Bowes

    ATO finds 6000 property sales that may have skipped paying tax (opens the original)

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    The tax office is chasing the owners of 6000 investment properties sold across the country in the five years to mid-2025 who failed to lodge a tax return disclosing the results and could owe tens of thousands of dollars each in capital gains tax. The discrepancies – which could total $66 million, although the Australian Taxation Office has not officially put a figure on it – are the result of the ATO’s increasing use of technology to cross-reference information from a wide range of federal, stat

  5. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Michelle Bowes

    Inside Treasury’s nine-step CGT formula: are you set to win or lose? (opens the original)

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    If you own an investment property, private business or unlisted asset, a little-known tax formula is about to decide whether you save thousands or hand over a windfall to the Tax Office. From July 1, 2027, the long-standing 50 per cent capital gains tax discount will be phased out for future gains, replaced by an inflation-indexed calculation. To split your asset’s timeline, Treasury is set to introduce a complex DIY valuation method.

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