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Women's retirement anxiety is increasing

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... would need to be raised to 16% in order to cover gender inequity. This is one of the reasons the Coalition's paid parental leave scheme offers a partial solution by including superannuation in the six month paid leave compared to the former ALP government's ...

Coalition urged to rethink super slash costings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... Friday, the day before the election. The Coalition's costings also estimate revenue of $4.4 billion from the paid parental leave (PPL) levy. Hockey's spokesperson said this would not be mitigated by franking credit refunds, reiterating the Coalition's ...

Coalition to save $1.6bn via SG delay

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
... 12,000 people, saving $5.2 billion over the budget forward estimates. Hockey also detailed the breakdown of the paid parental leave scheme to start in 2015. It is set to A cost $9.8 billion over its first two years, while scrapping Labor's existing scheme ...

Abbott's PPL scheme to hit Australia's charities

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... Bowen maintained his attack on the Coalition's proposed 1.5% levy on business that is intended to cover the paid parental leave (PPL) scheme, calling it "a retrograde step of quite enormous proportions." Speaking this morning at a Financial Services ...

Abbott's PPL scheme to cost retirees $1.6 billion in hidden tax

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
Superannuants and lower-income shareholders could be coughing up $1.6 billion towards the Coalition's paid parental leave (PPL) scheme, it has emerged. The Coalition has said it will, in part, pay for the PPL through a 1.5% levy on business earnings ...

Abbott to announce levy details next week

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... leader Tony Abbott admits proposed business tax cuts for some companies will be offset by the coalition's paid parental leave levy. But Abbott says most will still be better off. Abbott has confirmed a coalition government will cut the company tax rate ...

Super debate flawed: ASFA

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... Australians achieve an adequate retirement income, not on the short-term Budget bottom line. Individuals on paid parental leave, the self employed, those who earn less than the $450 a month threshold for receiving the superannuation guarantee, indigenous ...

Super policies shortchange women

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... recommendations are: lifting SG from the current 9 per cent to 12 per cent; including a superannuation component to paid parental leave; and the abolition of the $450 monthly income superannuation threshold. AIST also recommended the government give ...

ANZ boosts super contribs for female staff

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... employees of ANZ will now receive a $4,000 childcare allowance and payment of superannuation on all forms of paid parental leave in Australia while New Zealand employees parental leave payment is extended from 12 to 14 weeks. "Clearly there's a need ...

Westpac gives employees 12 months super pay

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
Westpac has unveilled plans to pay superannuation on unpaid parental leave for all permanent employees, starting next month. In a press statement released today, the bank announced it would pay up to 39 weeks in employee super contributions, in addition ...

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