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EOFY means new laws and new products

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... employers pay superannuation- during the first full year of operation from today. Later this month submissions are due for Joe Hockey's Tax White Paper (July 24) and on July 23 submissions are due for proposed changes to superannuation board governance. ...

Labor demands to see Treasury papers on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... until Labor announced its superannuation plans. The Treasury documents are reported to show that federal Treasurer, Joe Hockey, received Treasury advice on superannuation tax reforms on four occasions, with the last being on 22 April 2015, the same day ...

D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... fear du jour - Grexit - it was downhill from there. Not even the positive reception to Australian Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's second Budget nor the RBA's May interest rate reduction could get it back up again. Certainly gives meaning to that aged-old ...

Is content king for super funds?

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... says we've got a great account-based pension, that doesn't engage anybody. But putting it into the context of what Joe Hockey has just said about account based pensions or what Tony Abbott's been saying, that suddenly becomes relevant because people ...

Treasury extends tax debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey has announced the submissions deadline for the Tax White Paper will be extended by six weeks to July 24. Hockey said that this was because of the "strong public response" to the whitepaper along with "stakeholder interest in the ...

Government to invest in fintech security

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... transactions, including a voice biometric, Minister for Communications Paul Fletcher announced. This follows Treasurer Joe Hockey's comments during the release of the 2015 Budget that the Government would assist in funding both a central online portal ...

Better than the big boys

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... it if you tried. Then again, perhaps you would if you instead read about the relapse of Australian Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's "foot in mouth disease" and you don't want to read no more, no more, no more. But I digress. It's May's big bounce in Australian ...

Tax reform cannot be deferred any longer: AVCAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... of the economy according to Australian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association Limited (AVCAL). Submissions on Joe Hockey's Tax Discussion Paper were due this week and AVCAL discussed a need for tax certainty around domestic and offshore institutional ...

Shadow Treasurer will go to election over super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... 44% over the next 30 years," Bowen said. "The rate of growth dwarfs the increase in the scale of age pension costs. Joe Hockey's own budget papers show the cost of the concession doubling over just the next four years to more than $30 billion. "The same ...

Treasury to simplify foreign investment framework

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... how to "modernise" and strengthen the integrity of Australia's foreign investment framework. This follows Treasurer Joe Hockey's comments in his 2015 Budget speech where he proposed "introducing a new fee regime, better enforcement and stricter penalties" ...