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No changes to neg gearing, super in Budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... days Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg told Fairfax Media that the government has also ruled out changes to superannuation tax concessions. While Frydenberg made no claim to be speaking officially on behalf of the Prime Minister or Treasurer Joe Hockey ...

Tax debate highlights need for investments outside super

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... Life general manager Neil Rogan. Given the uncertainty about retirement outcomes triggered by debates around superannuation tax treatment, Rogan argued in a Centuria statement that pre-retirees should consider a more "holistic" investment approach, which ...

Retirement income committee to launch in June

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... White Paper and Intergenerational Report, which raise fundamental questions about retirement income, including superannuation tax treatment and structural changes to the age pension. The CSRI, though, aims to examine Australia's retirement income model ...

Policies can adjust super tax concessions: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... Superannuation Funds of Australia believes there are policies the federal government could implement promptly to adjust superannuation tax concessions. ASFA chief executive Pauline Vamos said lifetime caps on concessional and non-concessional contributions ...

Industry bodies respond to Hockey's tax debate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
The Financial Services Council, Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia and Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees have responded to some of the questions raised in Treasurer Joe Hockey's Tax Discussion Paper. FSC chief executive Sally ...

Treasury opens discussion on tax reform

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... phase, where no tax is paid on earnings in super: "This will put pressure on the long-term sustainability of the superannuation tax arrangements, particularly given other long-term budgetary pressures as the population ages, such as calls for higher ...

Tax concession debate "simplistic": SMSF Association

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... The $30 billion figure also assumes that people would not invest their cash in other tax effective ways if superannuation tax concessions did not exist. Slattery said it is also often forgotten that the TES measurements fail to account for the current ...

Government urged to leave super taxation alone

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... urged the Government to share with stakeholders the estimates and assumptions made in calculating the cost of superannuation tax concessions to the Federal Budget. This request has already been made by the SMSF Association but has so far been ignored. ...

Super tax subs worth $30bn in 2014

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... Senate battle to pass its 2014-15 Budget, Treasury has released its Tax Expenditures statement showing that superannuation tax subsidies are still one of the most expensive areas of the Budget. Superannuation costs included in the Tax Expenditure statement ...

Solve super tax inequity, says Murray

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... phases to make the transition to retirement less complicated. On the subject of equity, the report stated that superannuation tax concessions were "not well targeted", with "a small minority of members" holding "a high proportion of superannuation assets." ...