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ASFA wants action on tax relief

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... not yet made a decision on the issue. Vamos also said the industry should continue to campaign on increasing the super guarantee from 9 per cent to 12 per cent, saying employers would be the ones to push against it. "Nothing is guaranteed especially ...

Life insurance consuming dormant super fund balances

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... was changing. "There's one fund that provides excellent insurance benefits but the payment... is attached to the super guarantee contribution," she said. "So if the super guarantee stops then they don't take out any more premiums for the insurance." ...

Plum avgs 13.5pc member contrib.

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... 13.5 per cent across its entire 180,000-member network thanks to its three-part member service plan. The current super guarantee (SG) level sits at nine per cent, with Plum's average member contributions resting almost 40 per cent higher, with around ...

Super future hangs on High Court decision

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... legislation, an industry body said today. Market research company Roy Morgan Research has challenged the ATO, saying the super guarantee charge is not a tax and the Federal Government has no right to impose it on business as it is for private purposes. ...

SG needed to save retirees: Shorten

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... are so difficult that many members simply give up. "Can we really advocate to the nation for an increase to the super guarantee with any credibility if we cannot get our house in order to implement reforms?" she asked. The conference has addressed the ...

Govt claims MRRT as super victory

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... super changes would proceed. "We have cleared another milestone to implement the MRRT and therefore increase the super guarantee," he said in an email. But Senator Mathias Cormann, Shadow Assistant Treasurer, said the increase in compulsory super would ...

Super on table for October tax review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... forum," said a spokesman for the Assistant Treasurer. "We will continue with our super reforms to increase the super guarantee, deliver larger contribution caps for older Australians and deliver super concessions for the 3.5 million lower-income earners ...

First SG raise costs no more than a cuppa

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... of working Australians - 73 per cent of workers surveyed - supported the planned gradual rise in the 9 per cent Super Guarantee to 12 per cent. More than 75 per cent of respondents in the same poll were also in favour of the low-income super rebate.

Raising SG could impact regional companies

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... step in the right direction, they said, but more needs to be done to help small businesses transition to the new super guarantee levels. "The majority of Prime Super members, due to their geographic location and occupation, earn less than those based ...

Budget underwhelms planning groups

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
Financial planning groups have applauded tax discounts on savings and higher super guarantee payments, but most don't expect the Federal Budget's announcements will heavily impact client strategies. The Rudd Government's Federal Budget announced last ...