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Annuities to become more competitive

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
More competitors are expected to offer annuities should tax impediments around deferred lifetime annuities be removed in the impending financial services and tax reviews. CommInsure head of annuities, George Lytas, said the removal of that tax impediment ...

Franking credits matter, academics say

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... paper, Macquarie University professor Geoff Kingston argued that macroeconomic modelling undertaken by Treasury in its Tax Review "ignores the impacts on domestic investors and companies." Kingston said that, despite the potential savings of getting ...

Super concessions key to tax review

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... superannuation in the 2015 Budget, but the PM's promise that "there will be no changes to super" in the future has brought the tax review into question. "There will be no changes to super, no adverse changes to super in this term of parliament and we ...

No new taxes on super welcomed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees chief executive, Tom Garcia, said superannuation must be in the current Tax Review. Garcia also welcomed increased funding to the ATO which has an important role in superannuation as well as changes to ...

Super governance at centre stage

ANDREW BRAGG, FSC DIRECTOR OF POLICY AND GLOBAL MARKETS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... Assistant Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg who has inherited five significant policy processes. There will be a broad based tax review - the Tax White Paper, a government policy response to David Murray's Financial System Inquiry, reforms to lift financial ...

Inquiry recommends MRRT and LISC be scrapped

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2013
... industry and made a specific recommendation that the policy be reviewed at a later date or as part of the government's tax review. "The committee recommends that the government revisit certain measures in the Bill, in particular incentives in superannuation ...

HNW and SMSF under ATO scrutiny

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will focus on high net worth (HNW) and self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF) misuse of the concessional tax environment, whether if it is deliberately or unintentionally. The ATO announced that it will review ...

Labor moves to justify super existence

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... that Shorten had again failed to convince on the need for an increase from 9 to 12% on compulsory super. "The Henry Tax Review stressed that the burden of any further increase beyond the current 9 percent limit would impact ' most heavily on low and ...

Voluntary top-up contribs not enough: ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... fiscal melt-down. While ASFA's report noted that recommendations for superannuation reform from the ill-fated Henry Tax Review were important, the extremely low likelihood they will be implemented as a package as intended means alternative policy strategies ...

Super on table for October tax review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
Superannuation will be up for discussion at the Federal Government's October tax summit raising the spectre of further review, with industry figures asking for stability after a tumultuous few years. Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of the Australian ...