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Home loan fall follows rate hikes

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... expected... but at this point in time the Reserve Bank is on hold this year." Ms Kevans said the $7 billion worth of tax cuts, expected to be announced in tomorrow's federal budget to come into effect on July 1, would boost housing finance commitments ...

US slowdown won't stop global growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... Dutton. "The US Fed has brought in a raft of initiatives which has had a backlogged affect and separately they've announced tax cuts which hasn't had any effect on the economy yet. According to forecasts, the US economy will grow by 2.5 per cent this ...

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... since mid-2002 are now running at a cost of more than $85 billion a year, or some 7.7 per cent of GDP - $45 billion in tax cuts, and $40 billion in spending increases. "The end result has been yet another lift in spending per person at a time when we ...

AWU campaigns for opt-in super

... national secretary Paul Howes has called on the Federal Government to allow Australian voters the option to direct their tax cuts into their super fund. In an articled published in today's Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age, Howes has changed his ...

Tax reforms boost capacity, not inflationary

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
... and productive." But in words clearly aimed at addressing criticisms the government is gun-shy about withdrawing the tax cuts, the Treasurer said, "The tax reforms in this Bill are fiscally responsible. They will be progressively phased in - taking effect ...

Something interesting about rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
... it could get worse before it gets better, especially if the dollar keeps rising and the impact of the $30 billion in tax cuts start to flow around the economy.

BRICs to surge as G7 slows

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... automatic stabilisers to operate, would also help moderate the pressures on capacity that may be heightened by the announced tax cuts." The CLIs work by aggregating time series which summarize information contained in a number of key short-term economic ...

Pass the paracetamol

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... rate the RBA thinks is sustainable in the medium term, which is why today's rate hike was no surprise. With previous tax cuts finding their way into the stores, Henderson said, "All the spending promises during the election campaign from both sides of ...

Deck the halls with interest rate hikes

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2007
Looks like the May budget's tax cuts have poured straight into cash registers as retail spending data has shown a blow-out that has the market not just certain Cup Day will win us a rate hike but there will likely be another one under the Christmas ...

Another rabbit out of the hat

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2007
... of the 'official' election campaign, the Howard government pulled one big rabbit out of the campaign hat with yet more tax cuts, this time to the tune of $34 billion over the next three years. No one voiced cynicism over the timing when Treasurer Peter ...