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Showing 11 - 20 of 27 results for "Henry Review"

Challenger injects more liquidity into annuities

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... fixed rate of return, but the thing is you don't get charged a management fee." The new product also follows the Henry Review's recommendations in support of both lifetime and deferred lifetime annuities, he said.

New mining tax is miners' own idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... government and instead zero in on the miners themselves because it was their idea. In a 20-page submission to the Henry Review in November 2008, the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) said the inefficiency of volume-based royalty levies distorts orderly ...

SG jump twice as bad as mining tax slug

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... twice as hard. "The superannuation levy increase is the biggest new taxing measure in the Government Response [to the Henry Review] of $20 billion per year, larger than the Resource Super Profits Tax predicted at $9 billion per year," said the Australian ...

Simple tax is too taxing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
If I didn't know better, I would think that the Australian Treasury Secretary's name is Henry Review instead of Dr. Ken Henry. Look around you...pick up a paper...click on a mouse, and you're sure to find Dr. Ken Henry Tax Review splattered across the ...

Too much ado about Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
... our masters. This is what Kev said in his speech before the NSW Business Chamber yesterday: "In our response to the Henry Review the Government will make the tax system stronger and fairer. Improving the structure of the tax system by replacing inefficient ...

UniSuper restructures management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
The $25 billion UniSuper has overhauled the management structure across its advice, services, business and technology teams - with three executive managers leaving the fund. Following a recent review of business processes and accountabilities within ...

Government annuities proposal draws industry fire

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... from Towers Watson on the effects of compulsory government annuity products (hinted in the interim report of the Henry Review), warned the provision of these offerings "could cause real harm to the very people they are designed to assist". John Brodgen ...

HLB Mann Judd search for Henry clues

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
While investors will have to wait a while before they find out what the tax system changes are following the Henry Review, a leading tax expert takes a stab at what the new regime could be. Although the Treasurer is not giving anything away regarding ...

Hartsuyker named new shadow minister for super

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
Luke Hartsuyker MP is the new Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs, Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law. Hartsuyker's new role is part of the opposition leader Tony Abbott's shadow ministry reshuffle announced yesterday. "Luke replaces ...

The invisible issue in super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2009
Elizabeth Broderick, sex discrimination commissioner, has criticised the Henry Review and Harmer Pension Review for failing to address the superannuation gap for women. Speaking at the Sydney Institute, Broderick, who is also commissioner responsible ...