Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 231 - 240 of 296 results for "Tax cuts"

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 ...

Super is now the centrepiece: Vanguard

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
... misspell." Bowerman said one strategy that could work is that if boomer parents diverted some of their just-announced tax cuts into their teenage children's superannuation account it could quickly compound and give them a huge early savings boost. "Just ...

Economic round-up: Hey big spenders

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
With tax cuts on the way and consumer confidence at a 32 year high, it seems Australians are staking out the stores and car yards with smoking wallets and little thought of the consequential pressure applied to inflation. The general consensus among ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2007
... weak mainland financial plays. The benchmark Hang Seng Index closed up 57.35 points at 20,994.61. WELLINGTON - Business tax cuts and KiwiSaver incentives in the budget helped push the sharemarket up more than one per cent to a record high. Blue chips ...

Economic round-up: Money cant buy you love

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
It would seem the Government's tax cuts and economic performance may not buy votes after all, according to Newspoll market research, as despite Australian consumers being happier than ever since the Whitlam Government began to implode they still don't ...

Budget reply: National clearing house, halve the OS withholding tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
... to non-residents to 15 per cent. But Costello immediately rebuffed the proposal saying he is more interested in giving tax cuts to Australians than to foreigners, a response likely to disappoint funds managers who have been lobbying for similar measures ...

A fist full of dollars

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
... grown a money tree, some fear the branches may be a little bare in years to come with harvests the likes of last night's tax cuts. Our bullish stock market has created bumper tax revenues from superannuation funds, companies and individuals to a record ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2007
... 6304. After last night's relatively interest rate friendly federal budget, which introduces new spending initiatives and tax cuts, the Australian Bureau of Statistics today will release the house price indices for the March quarter. The Manpower-Melbourne ...

Not easy being green

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
Generous tax cuts are expected for working families and business will receive a kiss-and-make-up tax deal in the Federal Budget, but our four-legged rural residents might just be put on notice as part of the Budget's environmental contingencies. For ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
... its commodity price index for April. The Victorian state budget will be handed down in Melbourne, which will include tax cuts for business and a $1.3-billion package to boost drought-ravaged regional areas In company news, St George Bank will announce ...