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Business still unhappy with SG increase

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
Business groups are continuing to resist the increase in the Superannuation Guarantee levy, with 19 signing a declaration that they remain opposed to the increase despite the government's mining tax deal. The declaration was signed last week in Adelaide ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... federal government has scrapped its controversial 40 per cent tax on the mining industry, replacing it with a 30 per cent levy which will hit a lesser number of companies. The new tax will apply to iron ore and coal projects, and the petroleum resource ...

Resistance grows to SG increase

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... advocating the spending of someone else's money and agitating the government to break its 2007 election promise not to raise the levy," he added. Meanwhile, claims the RSPT-funded corporate tax cut will cross-subsidise these increased SG wage costs are ...

Mining royalties should go into SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... proposed mining tax, appeared to suggest the Coalition might be more more sympathetic to the restructured mining royalty levy if it was put into a SWF rather than used to bolster recurrent government spending. "If we're going to have this new tax, which ...

SG jump twice as bad as mining tax slug

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... profits tax slug on miners, but employer groups say lifting SG by one third will hit them twice as hard. "The superannuation levy increase is the biggest new taxing measure in the Government Response [to the Henry Review] of $20 billion per year, larger ...

Astarra pain spreads to super funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... manager. The regulator APRA may have to resolve the issue and potentially give workers access to the national 'compensation levy' for super funds. Third, unwinding or removing a superannuation fund option, as was the case with the Astarra super fund ...

12 Apostles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009

Ripoll recommends investor compensation fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
... compensation scheme would be desirable and cost effective in Australia. This should include consultation with the industry about how levy arrangements might be designed to ensure they are fair and equitable across the industry," said the PJC report. ...

What gets measured, gets done

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2009
... on "innovation", or whether the fund is doing anything groundbreaking by implementing their strategy. Fellow panelist Marc Levy, principal at Right Lane Consulting, drew on a mixed-method research they did based on the response from 25 per cent of the ...

Super about national not personal savings: Morgan

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... need to remember that concern about Australia's national savings rate was a prime motivator of the superannuation guarantee levy in the first place. But with Australia's current account deficit rising due to the GFC and continued pressure on the federal ...