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What to expect from the budget

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... small businesses, H&R Block director of tax communication Mark Chapman has warned that we are unlikely to see personal tax cuts in the budget. "In fact, if things stay as they are, low and middle income earners face a tax rise because of the abolition ...

Sweeping tax cuts announced

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... car parking and electronic devices provided to employees. The government has brought forward $17.8 billion of personal tax cuts to over 11 million individuals and backdated them to July 1. The stage two tax cuts increases the low income tax offset from ...

Industry welcomes tax cuts and surplus

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
Personal tax cuts and the $7.1 billion estimated surplus announced were the main highlights of this year's Budget, Financial Standard 's latest straw poll shows. More than a third or 35% of participants highly favoured the tax cut proposals ...

Federal Budget: Industry responds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... wealth industry. The big players are neither up in arms nor full of praise for the Budget, which was headlined by personal tax cuts and a $7.1 billion surplus - Australia's first in 12 years. Industry Super Australia said the changes to voluntary ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... year. Those were the days of synchronised growth upswing, given more oomph by Trump's declared corporate and personal tax cuts and more fiscal largesse that'll send the tide of global economic activity rise even more and lift emerging markets' ...

What the 2018 Budget means for you

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... Australia's $2.6 trillion superannuation system, additional funding to the nation's financial services regulators, personal tax cuts and additional pensioner benefits are the major talking points of Budget 2018. The 2018 Budget is arguably structured ...

Personal tax cuts lead the Budget

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
Personal tax cuts were on the top of Treasurer Scott Morrison's five-point list to "strengthen the economy" as he opened his Budget night speech. The Federal Government is proposing middle and lower income earners pay up to $530 less in tax, starting ...

A fist full of dollars

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
... higher commodity prices have enabled the government to maintain a firm structural budget position. However, personal tax cuts to low-income earners and also the special one-off payment to senior citizens are likely all end up in retailers' pockets. The ...

Call for personal tax cuts to plug company tax loophole

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2006
A push to cut top income tax rates was flagged this week as the Board of Taxation chairman, Dick Warburton, said such a reduction would stop people channelling personal income into company coffers. Warburton recently co-authored a report comparing Australia's ...

Costello says ninth Budget to produce surplus

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2004
... economic management. Some economists have raised concerns that hefty election year spending, coupled with expected personal tax cuts, could put pressure on interest rates as well as cutting the surplus back to the wire. Mr Costello said the most important ...
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