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Budget move to take superannuation 'back to the future'

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... Possible changes to the tax treatment of superannuation for high-income earners, likely to be included in tonight's federal budget, are taking Australia 'back to the future' according to Towers Watson. Andrew Boal, Managing Director for Towers Watson ...

Return to surplus may hit big business

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... and manufacturing as sectors struggling in current conditions, El-Ansary said the Treasurer's assessment that a surplus budget will make it easier for the Reserve Bank to continue cutting rates may be true, but its flow-on effects to bolster troubled ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... Sunday turned out the existing leadership and strongly backed parties opposed to austerity programs aimed at fixing their budget problems. LONDON - Most European stock markets closed higher despite the prospects for political and financial turmoil in ...

Mexican standoff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012

Stay or stay away this May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... self-congratulatory statement that the rate cut "was made possible by the government's determination to return the federal budget to surplus" (AFR) and not the weakness in the non-resource sector of the economy and below target inflation. If that's the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... CANBERRA - One of the country's leading economists says there is no economic imperative for the government to return the budget to surplus so quickly. MELBOURNE - Many Australian families may be struggling to make ends meet in the current economic environment ...

Sure 25 but maybe 50

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... showing "signs of weakness". And it'll only get weaker because of the rotting Gillard government's insistence on delivering a budget surplus by next fiscal year by cutting fiscal spending, raiding superannuation, increasing taxes and whatever more it ...

Less tax appeal for high income earners in super

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
High-income earners are set to see superannuation tax concessions cut in next week's budget. The move to increase tax on concessional contributions to 30% is likely to affect the approximately 128,000 Australians who earn more than $300,000 a year. ...

Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... wouldn't put it past the RBA to see through the dampening impact on the economy of the Federal Government's "promised" budget surplus and go for more. For given Prime Minister Gillard's latest backflip over the Slipper and Thomson affairs, Treasurer ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... President Mario Draghi's call to focus on spurring economic growth, as German officials rejected charges they are fixated on budget austerity to fight the debt crisis." For new gentle readers, I've been arguing almost forever that the single-minded focus ...