An accounting undergraduate who attempted to apply for registration as a BAS agent has been forced to wait until her degree’s conferral date as the Administrative Appeals Tribunal clarifies an administrative educational rule.
It has almost been a year since the FPA policy platform was launched and there has been significant progress on a number of fronts, Dante De Gori writes.
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The new disciplinary function for financial advisers can be further refined to improve the model through the creation of a true professional registration for financial planners, according to an industry body.
Former solicitor blocked from returning to profession amid ‘serious doubt’
By Naomi Neilson|11 May 2021
The Queensland Supreme Court has dismissed a former solicitor’s application to be readmitted following a build-up of concerning matters, including a failure to comply with the Code of Professional Conduct for tax agents and his willingness to cut and paste from his own affidavit to the court into those of his witnesses.
In 1998, Craig Bax was removed from the roll of practitioners after spending just four years in the profession. After climbing the ranks quickly to equity partner, Mr Bax backdated by six months a mortgage and deed of loan on behalf of a client so as to make it more difficult for the transactions to be challenged under bankruptcy.