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Real estate may cause super tax headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
Real estate investments within superannuation would cause the biggest issue when pension-phase funds revert to accumulation on the death of the member, a self-managed super fund expert said today. David Busoli, national head of education for Cavendish ...

Govt to refund super tax for 3.5 million

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
The Government will refund the 15 per cent superannuation contribution tax from 1 July 2012 for 3.5 million Australians who earn less than $37,000, assistant treasurer and minister for financial services and superannuation, Bill Shorten, announced today. ...

Get on board super reforms: Shorten

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... 8.4 million hardworking Australians will benefit from it." Shorten said the SG increase could be partly funded by a super tax on the mining sector. "We looked at the Minerals Rent Resource Tax, and if what we're doing will stifle, or hobble, or impede ...

Super tax breaks unaffordable: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Australia can't afford the rising and inequitable cost of superannuation tax concessions, said Treasury in its Red Book briefing to the returned ALP government. Each election, Treasury prepares a briefing folder for both the government should they be ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
The Australian stock market was in positive territory at noon on Thursday, with gains in the banking sector balancing losses in the mining sector. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 13.6 points, or 0.31 per cent, at 4,333.7, while the ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... Australia's new PM and its first femme Prime Minister. What happens to Labour's policy now -- particularly in relation to the "Super Tax" on mining, climate change, asylum seekers, superannuation, the budget, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera? Like Wall Street ...

HESTA pays managers after tax

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
The $13 billion HESTA is taking a new approach to measuring and remunerating Aussie equities fund managers by making them accountable for the tax implications of their decisions. According to a press statement by HESTA, the fund would be the first super ...

Too many choices, too many fees: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... Peter Costello that the government should stop tampering with the superannuation system. However, it was the Better Super tax reforms introduced by Costello in 2007 that lead to the distortions in how the $26 billion in super tax concessions are being ...

Streamline super concessions to boost contributions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... Henry Tax Review. Central to their proposals is that the tangled web of salary sacrifice arrangements, multi-faceted super tax deductions, spouse super tax offsets and co-contributions could be replaced with a single simple co-contribution structure ...

More info on super, please

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2009
Current economic events and the best super tax strategies are two of the top issues super fund members want to know more about, according to one industry fund. The $3.2 billion CSRF recently surveyed its newsletter readers, and noted that super tax ...