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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... strategist Michael Heffernan said it was a disappointing day on the market. "Overhanging the resources sector is the Henry Tax Review and the uncertainty about resources rent tax," Mr Heffernan said. "ANZ's results, which I thought was very good, was ...

Contribs rate during GFC still 23 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... substitution effect'. The APRA figures also lend weight to speculation as to why the government is relying on the Henry Tax Review for recommendations regarding changes to the structure of superannuation tax concessions - to act sooner risks undermining ...

IGR signals tax and health reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... compulsory superannuation contributions. However, it is most likely such proposals will have to wait until after the Henry Tax Review has finalised its recommendations regarding changing to tax expenditures and how superannuation tax concessions are ...

HLB Mann Judd search for Henry clues

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... regarding the outcome of the Henry Review, Jolyon Dare, tax director at HLB Mann Judd in Sydney, reckons the Henry Tax Review will not touch the dividend imputation system. "Henry says that in the short-term the time has not yet come to abandon imputation ...

Challenger takes annuities to platforms

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
Challenger has launched its Guaranteed Income fund, a unitised annuity investment fund onto the BT Wrap platform following financial planner demand for more income products. The fund invests in annuities issued by Challenger Life and investors can select ...

Tax system should improve wellbeing: Henry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... matters, and good government means having effective tools to improve people's lives. These lessons are pushing the Tax Review to focus on the key themes of the ageing population, environmental degradation, managing the impacts of globalisation and technological ...

Streamline super concessions to boost contributions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... superannuation equity but boost contribution rates. The proposals are contained in their supplementary submission to the Henry Tax Review. Central to their proposals is that the tangled web of salary sacrifice arrangements, multi-faceted super tax deductions ...

Super at the edge of abyss: ASFA

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... industry hovers at the edge of an abyss following the Federal Budget's cuts to super and a preliminary report of the Henry Tax Review, warned a key industry association. Pauline Vamos, chief executive of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia ...

Raise SG to 15 pc: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... increased SG contributions should be the responsibility of the employers. This comes after the Federal Government's Henry Tax Review's report recommended the SG remain at 9 per cent of ordinary time earnings (OTE) on Budget night. Mercer's Henry Tax ...

Super concession cuts were overdue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... has been criticised by lobbyists across the industry, reports from Canberra emerged over the weekend that the Henry Tax Review is hardening its position against extensive super concessions and is likely to recommend significant restructuring.