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Too much ado over MYEFO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... accounting and accountants. For without accounting's discovery he would have to rely on plain old and more drastic cuts to welfare and government spending and more drastic, gulp, tax increases to get that "surplus" come hell or high water. So what's ...

Politics around LISC heats up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... media reports that the Coalition was considering reining in the superannuation rebate for low income earners. The issue welfare interest groups want addressed is that high income earners receive much higher taxation benefits than low income earners by ...

Sun setting on the Land of the Rising Sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012

Retiree living costs match CPI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... at a different rate to regular inflation, requiring a special cost of living adjustment for pensions compared to other welfare benefits which are normally linked to CPI or average wages. The surprise in the latest results is that the PBLI is rising on ...

Liars' Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... prime ministership because he promised not to raise taxes, not to cut unemployment benefits and not to reduce pensioners' welfare, "por el bien del pais". That was back in November. Not even a year later and for the "good of the country," Rajoy announced ...

Education charities get philanthropy boost

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... not-for-profit organisations. The education sector received the biggest increase in distributions to $1.7 million while social welfare organisations received the largest portion of distributions (36.7%) at $4.6 million. "The marked increase in funding ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... leakage into politicians' pockets - that are, in turn, used to finance infrastructure projects, health, education and social welfare. Increased government revenues also makes it feasible for the Aquino administration to make good on its target of reducing ...

Eurozone to craft a reforms roadmap

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... body for the banking sector with new powers, harmonised fiscal, tax, foreign and security policies and reform of social welfare programs. AAP said some of the changes could initially apply just to the 17-nation eurozone and not the 27-member European ...

Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... surplus to be nullified. Driving the $46 billion turnaround, according to the government, is improved targeting of selected welfare and tax concession programs, deferral of some big ticket defence procurement and canceling the 1% corporate tax rate reduction ...

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... for the 7 million or so workers that lost theirs during the 2007-2009 recession. This means added government spending - welfare and social order - and lesser consumer spending and sales than would have been and by extension, below trend growth. Renewed ...