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Productivity Commission recommends corporate tax cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
A new Productivity Commission (PC) proposal suggests slashing Australia's company tax rate would boost GDP by $14 billion with no net cost to the Budget over the medium term. Draft recommendations in its interim report, Creating a more dynamic and resilient ...

Australian investment in venture capital lags: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2025
... Council (SMC) has said with the right policy settings, Australia's $4.2 trillion superannuation system could jump-start productivity and generate stronger investment returns for members by better connecting capital with scientific minds and startup innovators. ...

'We're proceeding' with Div 296: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... where Chalmers said experts and leaders from different sectors of the economy will gather to discuss how to lift productivity, economic resilience and budget sustainability. Independent MP Allegra Spender held her own roundtable last week discussing ...

Rest calls for super performance test reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2025
... challenges. "We strongly support economic reforms and policy changes that address intergenerational inequity, boost productivity and create a fairer super system. We believe the superannuation sector has a meaningful role to play in driving these outcomes ...

Brighter Super awards $50m mandate

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2025
... can produce strong returns for Brighter Super's members whilst contributing positively to Queensland's economy and productivity." Last year, Brighter Super announced its Queensland Investment Strategy focused on investing an additional $500 million in ...

Treasury opens consult on non-compete reforms

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
... eradicating such clauses could lift the wages of workers by up to 4% or $2500 a year, based on median wages. Meantime, the productivity boost could add $5 billion or 0.2% to the GDP annually. "Non-compete clauses, by their design, restrict an employee's ...

AI, corporate tax, skilled workers key to productivity: PC

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2025
The Productivity Commission says the nation should adopt a "growth mindset" by embracing artificial intelligence (AI), boosting human capital and rejigging corporate taxes to boost static productivity levels. The report, Growth mindset: how to boost ...

McKell Institute calls for CGT 'circuit breaker'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2025
... up to 130,000 additional homes built by 2030. The McKell Institute said it would be submitting the proposal at the productivity roundtable. "Labor has resisted change to the CGT discount for too long," co-author of the paper and McKell chief executive ...

How will Trump's tariffs impact the RBA?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... retaliatory measures against US tariff impositions will mitigate any inflation fallout." Miller added that while productivity growth and elevated labour cost growth may be sticking points for the RBA, he believes there are other data points that suggest ...

Investors 'ignoring' volatility: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2025
... performance and expectations for the year ahead. "Australia, like much of the developed world, is grappling with stagnating productivity growth and GDP per capita," Schroders head of Australian equities Martin Conlon said. "Fiscal imbalances are obvious ...