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Super tax concession savings not overly generous: NAB

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
National Australia Bank (NAB), in a submission to government, has said superannuation should be the most concessionally incentivised form of savings for Australians so it remains the most attractive structure to save for an adequate retirement. This ...

Actuaries say super taxes need to be reviewed

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
Financial services representative groups are weighing in to a debate about the federal government's uncertain position regarding superannuation tax reform. Today the Actuaries Institute said there is growing clamour for clarity around superannuation ...

Super reforms to hurt retirees

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... same time, Industry Super Australia (ISA) research indicates that the pension changes, in conjunction with existing super tax concession arrangements and the freezing of the super guarantee, will ultimately affect average income-earners more than wealthy ...

Super concessions key to tax review

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... concessions this term or during the next one if the Coalition is reelected. However, the budget papers showed that the cost of super tax concessions is expected to rise to more than $50 billion by 2018-2019, at a time when the government is looking to ...

No new taxes on super welcomed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... that cost recovery guidelines are applied in raising supervisory levies," he said. The budget papers show the cost of super tax concessions is expected to rise to more than $50 billion by 2018-19, A and Garcia said AIST's submission to the Tax Review ...

Hockey slams Labor super tax proposal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... at the carbon tax and now they've got a new superannuation tax," he said. When asked about his own views concerning super tax treatments - an issue raised in Hockey's recent Tax Discussion Paper - Hockey argued that the LNP had a "proper process in place." ...

ALP outlines superannuation tax policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... meddling. "ISA supports the proposal to establish a Council of Superannuation Custodians and align any future changes to super tax settings to the Intergenerational Report. These proposals will bring certainty for investors and stop ongoing speculation ...

$1m in super not enough: Cooper

MARK SMITH AND AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... Challenger, says a million dollars is always seen as a nice round figure in debates such as the present one surrounding super tax concessions. But using the current 10-year bond rate of 2.3% as the basis of the analysis he found that $1 million would ...

Seniors weigh in on super tax discussion

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
Seniors advocate group COTA Australia is encouraged that politicians and the broader community are realising the importance and inter-relation of superannuation, taxation, and age pension policies. COTA chief executive Ian Yates recently said the policies ...

Changes to super tax needed: AIST

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... and Mercer recently found the top 10% of Australian wage earners received about $500,000 in government support through super tax concessions over a lifetime. Those in the top 1% of earners received almost $630,000 of government support. This compares ...