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MYEFO sees bond issuance drop

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... said in a statement. AOFM has already issued $30 billion of Treasury bonds this year. The Mid-year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) figures have also enabled the AOFM to cancel new bond lines that were set to mature in September 2023 and December ...

MYEFO: Regulatory funding increases, Budget surplus doubles

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... Financial services regulators have also received increased funding in the government's Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO). The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will receive more than $182 million over four years from 2019-20 to extend the ...

Chief economist update: We're headed for surplus (if assumptions hold)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... to be in surplus one year earlier - equivalent to 0.1% of GDP in FY 2019-20 as against the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) of 0.4% of GDP by FY 2020-21 - and from there, the hope is that it'll be surpluses all way as far as the eye can see. ...

Chief economist update: Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... others. Never mind the "promised" surplus, it's election spending time. In the December 2017 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO), the Treasury predicted that ever-elusive surplus to be reached by FY2020-21 amounting to A$10.2 billion (0.5% of ...

Chief economist update: As luck would have it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... minutes but perhaps, it's at or close to the Federal Treasury's US$55/tonne projected in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) report for 2017-18, released in December last year. "Iron ore prices are assumed to remain flat at US$55 per tonne ...

Ho ho hum MYEFO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
... seven months made. More specifically the time Budget 2017-18 was released last May to the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) released yesterday. The difference is A$5.8 billion. This is the improvement in the country's budget deficit forecast ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... Maldives with change to spare. It's a good starting point for the Budget too. Recall that in the Mid-year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO)2016-17, the government lowered its real GDP prediction to 2.75% for FY2017/18 from 3% forecasts in May last ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... underlying message from Australian Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison's Budget update where the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) report showed the budget deficit beamed up by a cumulative A$10.3 billion over the next four years to FY2019/20. ...

Super tax receipts to reach $8bn: MYEFO

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... cash balance by about $3 billion out to 2020. These figures formed part of the government's Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, which confirms the Budget is still projected to return to surplus in 2020-21. Treasurer Scott Morrison said in helping the ...

MYEFO writes down billions in super fund taxes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... superannuation funds will not have the greatest 2016 after significant tax write downs in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) were released yesterday. Superannuation fund taxes have been written down $1.4 billion (14.9%) in 2015-16. A total ...