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Superannuation

Labor's $30bn secret super tax plan revealed

BY LINDA HAUSKEN | WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012 12:15PM

Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann is calling on Superannuation Minister Bill Shorten to come clean to Australians that they have to pay $30 billion in increased super taxes to assist the Labor government to pay for its $120 billion budget black hole.

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