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Former AMP Capital research lead joins family office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024
... Capital in 2003. He later shifted his focus to federal politics, where he worked as a political advisor in the Howard government before joining the Property Council of Australia after the 2007 election. He also did a stint with CBRE. In 2014, Dixon founded ...

Superannuation market defies capital market chaos

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2023
... "As high as this ratio could've potentially been, it still pales in significance compared to 2007 when the Howard government abolished taxes on retirement savings; when they did this, contributions exploded to 34.8% of total wages," a Rainmaker report ...

Vale Ted Evans

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
Tributes are flowing for former Westpac chair and Treasury secretary Ted Evans, who passed away over the weekend. Evans, who had been battling cancer, joined the Australian Treasury in 1968 and devoted 43 years of his working life to public service ...

Coronavirus in, climate change out: Costello, deVere

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... new coronavirus to be dubbed the number one threat to financial markets and the global economy, with former Howard Government Treasurer and Future Fund chair Peter Costello warning of the short-term risk of the rapidly spreading virus. "As of today ...

In a nutshell: Federal Budget 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... payers will receive tax relief to the tune of $158 billion - the largest personal income tax cuts since the Howard Government. The tax cuts will benefit those earning up to $126,000 a year. As a result, single income households will hold on to up to ...

Shuttering dividend cash loophole to hit SMSFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... "[imputation] credits will not give rise to cash refunds where it exceeds tax otherwise payable." Under the Howard Government in 2000, individuals and superannuation funds were able to claim cash refunds for excess imputation credits that were not used ...

Complaints authority welcomes new chair

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... the bill. Coonan has experience in law, business, financial services and dispute resolution; she is a former Howard Government cabinet minister and served as the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, O'Dwyer said. She demonstrated deep knowledge ...

Terrible tax policies of the last 25 years

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... to borrow for residential property investment - Howard/Costello, 2007 In 2007, during the last months of the Howard government, limited recourse borrowing arrangements were introduced as the way for SMSFs to access loans to purchase a property. While ...

No progress on super wealth gap in 12 years

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... contributing to superannuation funds for much of their working lives-as well as periodic policy changes, such as the Howard Government's decision in 2006 to exempt from income tax all superannuation earnings and drawdowns in retirement, thereby increasing ...

Pensioners want DB decision reversed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
... benefit pension. It was previously not subject to a maximum," a CPSA statement said. CPSA said in 2007, the Howard Government introduced a measure whereby after-tax contributions of $150,000 per year could be made to super and it has now become clear ...
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