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Reversionary pension and CGT changes supported

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... recent Challenger Financial Standard Technical Services Forum that the transitional arrangements also provide capital gains tax (CGT) relief for complying superannuation funds. In its explanatory memorandum on the super changes Treasury has explained ...

QSuper pays $4.6 million bonus

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... account. QSuper chief executive Michael Pennisi said these tax savings represent money set aside by the fund to pay capital gains tax on investment assets, but this tax does not need to be paid when the assets are sold in the income account. "We're excited ...

Budgets with more super tinkering are possible

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... difference, GST would be the first one," Evans said. The third major lever the government could pull is around capital gains tax. Evans said it was introduced in the Costello years after a lot of lobbying by the venture capital industry. As it became ...

Powerwrap launches SMA service

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... by individual investors, allowing investors to benefit from expert investment management without the embedded capital gains tax associated with managed funds. Historically reserved for high net worth individuals with access to minimum investments of ...

SMSFs must increase global equities investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... include direct asset ownership, access to dividends, administrative ease, and potential tax minimisation via capital gains tax modeling and tax parcel optimisation. "International managed portfolios remove challenges which have previously impeded investors ...

Align with super's purpose, not politics

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016
... Do you have higher growth assets sitting inside a pension account because that's where we're going to have no capital gains tax to pay." He said a misconception people talk about is that their superannuation has performed well or performed badly over ...

Ten-year enterprise tax plan to benefit SMEs

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... million in 2019-20. The current $2 million turnover threshold will be retained for access to the small business capital gains tax concessions, while unincorporated small business tax discount will be increased to 8% and the threshold extended from a ...

KPMG targets super to fix deficit

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... structurally deficit position throughout the whole forecast period." The company also recommends reducing the capital gains tax discount on super from one-third to one-quarter, introducing a rule which crystallises unrealised gains at conversion from ...

Super flagged to repair Australia's budget

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... 15% discount that would generate $6.9 billion in government revenue. This would be supplemented by halving the capital gains tax discount, halving the fuel tax credit scheme, and raising taxes on luxury cars, alcohol and tobacco by 15% - all of which ...

Super not for plugging Budget holes: AIST

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
The focus of superannuation tax reform should be on improving fairness rather than introducing Capital Gains Tax changes that will reduce retirement income for all Australians, The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has said. Commenting ...