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About the Institute of Financial Professionals Australia
The tax, accounting, superannuation, and financial advice profession is undergoing rapid change, and our mission is to support this sector into the future, recognising the increasing convergence of services.
The Institute of Financial Professionals Australia is a not-for-profit membership association (originally known as Taxpayers Australia, then Tax & Super Australia) and has been serving members for over 100 years.
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Australia at a Fiscal Crossroads: New Journal Warns of End of “Easy Choices”
The Institute of Financial Professionals Australia Research Foundation has released its Tax Policy Journal 2026, a comprehensive analysis warning that Australia is approaching the limits of its current revenue model and that governments can no longer avoid the difficult trade-off between higher taxes, rising debt, or tighter public services. Drawing
IFPA Calls for Intergenerational Overhaul of Australia’s Broken Tax System
Peak professional body’s President says the 2026-27 Federal Budget has deepened the dysfunction of a tax architecture that has never been fit for purpose — and calls for structural reform, not more complexity The Institute of Financial Professionals Australia (IFPA) is calling for a comprehensive, intergenerational overhaul of Australia’s income
LEAD GENERATION
By Scott Heathwood, President of the Institute of Financial Professionals Australia There’s been a lot of commentary over the weekend linking “lead generation” to the failures of Shield and First Guardian. Let’s be clear: that narrative is both convenient and wrong. What happened in those cases was not a failure