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Good Budget, bad Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... given his first one which left almost all sectors of the Australian economy frothing at the mouth cursing the Abbott government). Call it what you like but at the end of the day, it's built on forecasts - also known as guesses - about the future. To ...

No changes to neg gearing, super in Budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
Just three weeks out from the Abbott government's second budget, the Prime Minister and Assistant Treasurer have said there will be no changes to tax policy regarding negative gearing or superannuation. On speculation that the government might act to ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... most needed now is something monetary policy can't directly cause: more of the sort of 'animal spirits'... The Abbott government's flip-floppings on fiscal policy isn't helping to bring out the animals in businesses nor lifting consumer spirits.

One third of first home buyers are investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... younger FHB entering the property market as investors during the last two years adds further weight to why the Abbott government will have to tread warily should it wish to review and restrict negatively geared tax concessions for property investment. ...

Arthur's back. Wait, no he's not

COLIN BRINSDEN, AAP ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
The Abbott government's announcement of an improved register for the beleaguered practitioners was marred by an embarrassing blunder. Treasury was forced to issue a rare apology after mistakenly making the announcement under the name of suspended frontbencher ...

Govt to amend fund merger tax laws

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
The Abbott government has announced that it will go ahead with amendments to the tax rules around fund mergers to ensure members caught up in such mergers are not inadvertently hit with tax penalties. The amendments were proposed by the previous Labor ...

Treasurer signals major superannuation shake up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... subsidies operate reinforce how in changing the age pension entitlement rules and its indexing arrangements the Abbott government is attempting to reboot how superannuation and the age pension interacts with a view to promoting a culture of more self-reliance ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... and National Australia Bank had added 32 cents to $34.50. Mr Keenan said investors were keenly awaiting the Abbott government's first budget, due out on Tuesday night, however negative budget talk had already been priced into the market. He said there ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher on the eve of the release of the Abbott government's first budget. At 1010 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 14.1 points, or 0.26 per cent, higher at 5,474.9, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Super needs a radical new solution to longevity: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... to build the accumulations between 60 and 80." Keating also said that part of cause of this pressure - as the Abbott government is now finding out as it prepares for its first budget - is that tax changes introduced by former Prime Minister John Howard ...