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Coalition, small business reject super clearing house model

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
... collecting information from employees and trying to understand the superannuation laws and processes," he said. The Coalition has rejected the Medicare clearing house function and wants super payments remitted through the ATO as part of the PAYG process. ...

Pollies clash over SG

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... move to raise superannuation guarantee (SG) from 9 to 12 per cent with assistant treasurer Bill Shorten calling the Coalition's attitude towards superannuation "belligerent". Speaking at a union's investment forum in Sydney on June 17, Shorten told attendees ...

Policy war erupts over super clearing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
A war of words has broken out between the Coalition and the Government over which party offers small business the best method for processing superannuation payments. The Coalition, on Friday, issued a statement blasting the Government's Medicare superannuation ...

Govt to refund super tax for 3.5 million

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... workers, whatever their income, deserve just rewards and financial security in retirement," Shorten said. "We call on the Coalition to end their mindless opposition to this far-reaching policy that will build the wealth of 3.5 million low income Australians ...

Coalition adopts ALP super clearing house model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
The Coalition has adopted the ALP's superannuation clearing house policy as their preferred way to simplify contribution payments for small businesses. Under the morphed policy, the Coalition has proposed small business employers send superannuation ...

Oakeshott won't back FOFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... powerbrokers. "I am considering amending this to at least five-year service agreements and would be interested to see if the Coalition wishes to go further," he told Business Spectator. The opposition shadow financial services minister Senator Mathias ...

Advisers aim for independents over FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... Cormann told the crowd that after 1 July the shift of power in the Government would change. The Senate would move from Coalition to Labor control with the support of the Greens, he said. But the House of Representatives would be in the hands of the independents. ...

Budget bore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... ho-hum Budget that even the Australian dollar was unimpressed by. It hardly moved up or down. What do you expect? It's a Coalition Government after all. Labor knows to tread carefully, not to agitate its partners-in-power lest all the fiddling it's done ...

SG needed to save retirees: Shorten

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... compulsory superannuation from 9 per cent to 12 per cent, and to lift the concessional cap limits - a move opposed by the Coalition. The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) welcomed Shorten and launched its own push for the super increase ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... trading at US$0.6843 instead of one for one. Perhaps they didn't see back then that the Australian Liberal National Coalition would win government in Western Australia, Victoria and more recently New South Wales. Their victory and what it implied - no ...