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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases building approvals data for July, and private new capital expenditure and expected expenditure data for the June quarter. In company news, Lend Lease, Perpetual, Prime Media Group and Boart Longyear ...

Untargeted tax subsidies inept

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... the nation's superannuation taxation subsidies will climb to $45 billion and become the government's single biggest expenditure item. Ironically, the amount will be large enough to match the cost of all income support for age pensioners and other seniors ...

Untargeted tax subsidies inefficient

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... Papers, the costs of the nation's taxation subsidies will climb to $45bn and become the government's single biggest expenditure item. The amount will be so large it will ironically match the cost of all income support for age pensioners and other seniors ...

Retiree living costs match CPI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2012
... is that the PBLI is rising on par with regular CPI despite retirees and pensioners having a different mix of normal expenditure. For example, they spend a higher proportion (compared to the CPI population) of their income on fruit and vegetables, which ...

Liars' Club

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... Also, data from the Office of National of Statistics show that instead of reduced government spending, government expenditure jumped by 7.9% in the year to May. I'm certain that our gentle readers could cite plenty more hands down. This is why I couldn't ...

SMSFs should pay SuperStream levy: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... detailed breakdown of its SuperStream development costs. SuperStream levies should meanwhile be discounted by this expenditure providing a wider benefit to the ATO and the federal government.

SuperStream levy unclear

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
The Financial Services Council has raised concerns on the expenditure of monies levied on the industry to pay for SuperStream and the manner in which they are to be raised. Speaking at public hearings of the Parliamentary Joint Committee Inquiry into ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is due to release data on private new capital expenditure and expected expenditure for March quarter 2012 and building approvals for April, while the Reserve Bank of Australia ((RBA) ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... more than the expected 0.4% gain. Capex. Happy consumers spend. Businesses happy. Actual total private new capital expenditure jumped by 30% in the year to December 2011. The ABS reports that "Estimate 1 for 2012-13 is $172,887m. This is 28.2% higher ...

What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... beer. I - While there are still a lotta investments going on in the resources sector of the economy, total capital expenditure have started to contract at the margin. Business investment fell by 0.3% in the December quarter, a sharp reversal from the ...