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Push to end US Congressional pensions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... can Congress make private-sector employees pony up taxes to fund pensions for members of Congress when few of these taxpayers enjoy such benefits?" he added. Thomas Massey, a Kentucky congressman from Kentucky, one of the bill's co-sponsors, said: "If ...

Super tax subs worth $30bn in 2014

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... cases. In practice, the revenue gain can be difficult to estimate as there is usually little, if any, information on how taxpayers might react to the removal of a tax expenditure." The superannuation industry has in the past rejected these taxation subsidy ...

Taxpayers Australia supports Board of Tax recommendation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
Taxpayers Australia has announced its support for the Board of Tax recommendation to redefine the small business turnover threshold from $2 million to $3 million to keep pace with inflation. "Relief to small business is necessary as they do not have ...

SPAA "disappointed" by the FSI's SMSF borrowing recommendations

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... the superannuation system has delivered to individuals, the financial system and the economy, and limit the risks to taxpayers." In February then Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos ruled out a full review into limited recourse borrowing arrangements ...

Boost impact investing, says FSI

MARK SMITH  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... investors to pursue opportunities that provide both social and financial returns thereby benefitting government and taxpayers. "It can change the role of Government from paying for inputs to paying for outcomes. It can also benefit not-for-profits by ...

Murray calls for end to LRBAs

ALICE URIBE  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... the superannuation system has delivered to individuals, the financial system and the economy, and limit the risks to taxpayers." In February then Assistant Treasurer Arthur Sinodinos ruled out a full review into limited recourse borrowing arrangements ...

Murray's FSI: consumers win round one

ALEX DUNNIN  |  SUNDAY, 7 DEC 2014
... retirement, which reinforces the FSI's concerns that the system is still too reliant on subsidies funded by working taxpayers - note that while Murray had views on superannuation's tax subsidy structures he also emphasised that the FSI was a policy review ...

Wealth division boosts ANZ profit

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... than ever. While everyone benefits from a well-capitalised, well managed banking system - consumers, shareholders and taxpayers - there is a real cost to the economy of ever more restrictive regulation and policy settings. It is not in Australia's interest ...

Super squabble beyond the joke: Taxpayers Australia

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014
... bodies representing the retail and industry sides of superannuation is detrimental to members' interests, according to Taxpayers Australia. The not-for-profit advocacy group said the battle "would be amusing if the consequences weren't so great" and ...

Expect more regulation on 'too-big-to-fail': Hockey

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... global banks to draw on in the event of failure," the Treasurer said, and added that "this is aimed at further protecting taxpayers if a large global bank were to run into difficulty." The final communiquA(C) of the G20 meeting acknowledged that, compared ...