council terminates salary packaging company’s services

Posted August 13, 2013 06:49:41

Photo: NSW Police and ASIC are investigating Newcastle Salary Packaging after complaints from Muswellbrook Council about car leasing arrangements. (ABC News)

Muswellbrook Council says it terminated the services of a Lake Macquarie-based salary packaging company after becoming concerned some payments were not being made.

Both police and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission are investigating Newcastle Salary Packaging after complaints from the council about car leasing arrangements.

General manager Stephen McDonald says it appears three staff may be affected but the full extent will not be known until investigations are complete.

“There was issues in regards to the level of service they were providing whereby they weren’t getting statements in time,” he said.

“We were making inquiries in regards to whether payments were being made with the lease company.

“With the information we were being told from the leasing company, that didn’t reflect the information we were being told from Newcastle Salary Packaging.

“So we started to make some inquiries and we decided to terminate our services with Newcastle Salary Packaging.”

Mr McDonald says any salary packaging companies they use in future will have to meet strict criteria.

“There’s an investigation being undertaken at the moment by ASIC and police and until that investigation is complete we won’t know the extent of the problem,” he said.

“In regards to the companies we pick there are a number of companies that use Newcastle Salary Packaging.

“We are looking at another provider .

“Obviously we will be looking in regards to their qualifications.

“In regards to ASIC, their requirements and we will be doing some reference checks as well.”

The ABC has attempted to contact Newcastle Salary Packaging for comment.

Topics: local-government, consumer-finance, muswellbrook-2333, newcastle-2300

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Australian Salary Packaging Industry Association Kicks Off $10 Million Anti-Fbt Blitz

The salary packaging industry’s ‘Who’s Next?’ campaign aims to “pull at the heartstrings” by highlighting the knock-on effects of the FBT changes.

The salary packaging and automotive industry has launched its multimillion-dollar campaign attacking the Rudd Government’s proposed changes to the fringe benefits tax.

The Australian Salary Packaging Industry Association campaign, ‘Who’s Next?’, went to air last night. It highlights the “knock-on effects” of the FBT changes and, keeping with CEO Leigh Penberthy’s pledge to “pull at the heartstrings”, emphasises the “80,000 charity workers” who will be affected.

“Job losses and rising costs of living – it’s happening now,” the ad says. “Rudd Labor government changes to fringe benefits tax will impact the 21% of new vehicles sold annually. That’s 233,000 vehicles.

“Hundreds of jobs lost, thousands at risk. Eighty-thousand charity workers driving vehicles will be affected. Costs will rise, services will suffer. It’s less money in our pockets. The knock-on effects mean everyone loses.”

The ad finishes with a call-to-action, pointing to the campaign website WhosNext.com.au. CHE Proximity was the creative agency while OMD handled media. Also working on the campaign are government relations agency Hawker Britton and Peter Costello’s lobbying firm, ECG Advisory Solutions.

Penberthy told AdNews last week that the campaign would draw on learnings from the Minerals Council of Australia’s ‘Keep Mining Strong’ anti-mining tax campaign in 2010 that helped bring down Kevin Rudd’s first prime ministership.

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