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Govt continues to target high income HHs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... continues government signals that they believe households with annual income above $150,000 are wealthy and should have their welfare payments means tested, though not cut out completely. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, only about five ...

Super and pensions under attack

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... expenditures, said Ingles. This inequity is why "superannuation tax concessions have been a bone of contention for the welfare sector." "The top five per cent of individuals accounting for 37 per cent of concessional contributions," he said. Meanwhile ...

Trustees should adopt system-wide policies: Sherry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... policies that will benefit the entire industry - dispelling the age-old notion that trustees only need to look after the welfare of their own members. Senator Sherry told journalists at the ASFA conference on Friday that there needs to be a system-wide ...

Moral hazard remains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
... postulated that laissez-faire capitalism is inherently unstable and requires heavy state intervention to survive. The welfare state developed. Unemployment insurance, deposit insurance and other forms of automatic stabilizers were put in place. As a ...

Housing affordability report fails to deliver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... what is reasonable, is it that modern home owners just want nice houses but don't want to pay the going rate, or is it a welfare problem? The ill-definition might explain why following the release of the report the major talking point was not the report ...

Pensioners power unplugged

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... index routinely increases at twice the rate of regular inflation, the potential for aged pension payments to overwhelm the welfare budget become frightening. Inter-generational inequity is looming as a real possibility. The index nonetheless confirms ...

Planner To-Do list post Budget

... co-contributions will have a big impact on existing financial plans. "The government's now getting rid of 'high net worth' welfare where the means test is based on the primary earner's income and the baby bonus being based on the family income." Overall ...

Our two-track super model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... Minister Kevin Rudd could be sending strong regulatory signals when he said people earning more than $60,000 may not need welfare support and government protection. The Prime Minister this morning told Fairfax radio that the people who really need the ...

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... budget allocations in areas where spending is growing or projected to grow, such as defence, health, social security and welfare, to immediate review." Illustrating why they believe expenditure should be reigned in, they said recent Budgets have released ...

Another rabbit out of the hat

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2007
... inflation. These factors have the additional knock on effects of increased tax revenue collections and reduced payments such as welfare. Essentially the new tax package will raise the tax-free threshold for low-income earners from $11,000 to $16,000 ...