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A lesson against austerity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... The Abe government has pulled out all the stops and it appears to be working. And does it care that it's predicted 2013 budget deficit of 8.9% of GDP is one of the highest (if not the highest in the globe) and its debt as a percent of GDP (around 220% ...

ASFA warns govt against Super raid

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... may be planning a tax grab from the country's $1.5 trillion superannuation savings pool to plug a surprise hole in the budget. Earlier in the month the government announced a series of proposed changes to superannuation taxation, which it said would ...

Global cooling on carbon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... Australian Industry Group - clamouring, "I'll have what she's having". That's tough for Wayne Swan who'll be presenting the Budget to us Australians all in less than a month's time. The last Budget predicts a carbon price of A$29 a tonne by 2015/16. ...

Use super to help pay health costs: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
Superannuation contributions should be used to help pay spiralling health care costs, the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) said in a recent report. The CEDA report, Healthcare: Reform or Ration, said in the five decades between ...

Coalition vow to leave SMSFs alone

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
... political exercise, a circuit-breaker to get people off their back. The Government won't legislate on the proposals before the Budget and the Treasurer has also refused to rule out additional changes to policy."

Super council won't prevent Labor tax raids

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
... Hockey. "Australians live in fear that Labor will once again raid super to pay for the government's reckless spending in the Budget. Australians can be sure that Wayne Swan will be back for more tax grabs from their superannuation accounts sooner rather ...

2011 and 2012 Redux?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013

Super changes ease political and financial uncertainty

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... the Council of Superannuation Custodians and hope that this will serve to remove superannuation from the annual federal budget cycle and the political debate and allow an independent body, similar to the RBA to determine the appropriate policy setting ...

Super will improve under Labor: Shorten

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... strongly...We want to build up the system, not like Mr Abbott who wants to tear it down. The Government will go through its normal budget process through this period, we'll go about putting together reforms methodically and in a clear minded way," he ...

ASMA dismayed by proposed super hikes

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... Tax Expenditure Statement produced by the government suggests that super tax concessions put a $32 billion hole in the budget. However, that number is disputed by Pauline Vamos, chief executive, Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia who says ...