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Tightening of super tax concessions far from guaranteed

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
... government raid on super tax concessions is on the horizon, that outcome is far from guaranteed. Treasury's recent tax expenditure statement showed that super tax concessions cost the Budget billions of dollars, but Heferen, who is revenue group executive ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... per cent fall in half year profit to $US4.3 billion, as it lifted its dividend and outlined further reductions in expenditure in the coming two years. Other miners were mixed, with Rio Tinto down 61 cents at $63.31 and Fortescue Metals up five cents ...

ASX half-year profit up 4.7%

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
... exchange and reduce the time to market for new products. We expect to manage the program within a total group capital expenditure envelope of $40-50 million per annum."

Super tax subs worth $30bn in 2014

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... superannuation tax subsidies are still one of the most expensive areas of the Budget. Superannuation costs included in the Tax Expenditure statement refer to foregone taxation revenue associated with employer superannuation contributions and the concessional ...

Investment Trends releases 2014 platform report

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... rising compliance costs - which account for 55% of platform development spend on average, up from 51% in 2013 - overall expenditure on new functionality has fallen 22% from the previous year. Despite this, the report notes that adviser satisfaction with ...

ASFA outlines spending needs of nonagenarians

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... (ASFA) has developed a new retirement standard, the ASFA Retirement Standard for Older Retirees, which outlines the expenditure required for Australians aged 90-95 to maintain a comfortable or modest lifestyle in retirement. The existing ASFA Retirement ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... annual rate of 458,000. In local economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases new capital expenditure and expected expenditure for the September quarter and the HIA new home sales figures for October are due out, as is the ...

Conditions and confidence collide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... that suggests that the non-mining sector of the economy is drinking or about to drink Gov Glenn's water - the capital expenditure index went up by 4 to a reading of 9 in October (well over its long-run average of 5) "which suggests a moderate expansion ...

SMEs embracing accounting in the cloud

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
The overwhelming majority of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) intend to increase expenditure on cloud accounting technology in the near future, according to a recent survey by Wolters Kluwer. A whopping 96% of respondents said they intended ...

Australia's pension system second best in the world

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... countries. This trend will continue as life expectancy continues to increase and many governments reduce their per capita expenditure on their aged population," Knox said. "This shift means communication to members has never been more important or come ...