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Super should not be compulsory: Cox

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
... raised about the appropriate balance between individual risk and pooled risk," she said. Cox also attacked the tax concessions to super - concessions that are often used by wealthier super fund members rather than the below average or median Australian ...

Too many choices, too many fees: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... Super tax reforms introduced by Costello in 2007 that lead to the distortions in how the $26 billion in super tax concessions are being allocated across the economy, indirectly provoking the explosion in SMSFs, the Henry and Cooper reviews, and the expected ...

Streamline super concessions to boost contributions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... than complain about superannuation complexity, the Industry Super Network has proposed a complete reworking of tax concessions around contributions that they argue will not only significantly improve superannuation equity but boost contribution rates. ...

OECD vindicates govt super reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... The finding lands a fatal blow to critics of the government's superannuation reforms who have argued that the tax concessions should not be wound back and that means testing of the benefits should not be re-introduced. "More than one in four Australian ...

Super is a good idea but needs fixing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
... middle income people save money to supplement their government funded age pension, the almost exclusive focus on tax concessions as its primary incentive tool has resulted in these incentives being untargeted. Disney said in an opinion article published ...

Super at the edge of abyss: ASFA

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
... the whole industry and I don't think we can underestimate that," she said. But while cuts to superannuation on tax concessions might be a sign of things to come for tighter super rules, a separate statement by Senator Nick Sherry, minister for superannuation ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... the solution." Other solutions to address the fiscal shortfall are to significantly extend the superannuation tax concessions cuts beyond what was announced in the Budget, argue the Unions, whose voice is expected to carry significant influence in the ...

Super concession cuts were overdue

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
Cuts to superannuation tax concessions are signs of things to come as the government gets on with a program it says will restore fairness to the system. "It is appropriate that those who are better off should help those not so well off," said Shane ...

Top 10 budget quotes

... "Under this Budget measure, employees with an ATI in excess of $60,000 who participate in an ESAS will lose any tax concessions and will effectively be purchasing shares on an after-tax basis. Loan schemes may become an alternative arrangement for those ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... Wayne Swan was to the superannuation industry which was quietly fearing a back lash against the high cost of the tax concessions that underpin it. Some industry associations were so concerned they quietly warned that the government could launch an all ...