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Super compliance to ease: PM

Prime Minister John Howard announced changes to the superannuation guarantee arrangements last night, removing the need for small business to report quarterly superannuation contributions to employees. Announced as part of a paper, Committed To Small ...

Business puts competitiveness before national security, survey shows

... by Treasurer Peter Costello. Availability of skilled workers (39.8%), personal tax levels (39.7%), the superannuation guarantee levy (33.6%) and company tax levels (31.8%) were also ranked by business as major concerns. But just 6.6% said national security ...

Simon Crean hails ALP as the 'Party of the Superannuants' at talk today

... prohibition of entry and exit fees, a banning and/or restrictions of commissions on compulsory nine per cent superannuation guarantee contributions; a system of flat fees for advice; increasing powers to the regulators such as APRA, ASIC, the ATO and ...

Labor has a red letter day in Parliament: Senator Sherry

... and enforceable disclosure of fees, charges and commissions, and banning of commissions on compulsory Superannuation Guarantee (SG) of per cent superannuation contributions.

Senator Sherry highlights the need for action on the back of poor super stats

... Employer contributions increased for the year by 12.4% largely driven by the increase in Labor's Compulsory Superannuation Guarantee (SG), which moved from eight per cent to nine per cent on 1 July 2002, he said. Senator Sherry also remarked that member ...

Employers to make quarterly SG contributions: ATO

Changes to superannuation law means that from July 1 2003 employers will have to make Superannuation Guarantee (SG) contributions quarterly rather than annually, the Australian Tax Office (ATO) announced today. Deputy commissioner of taxation for superannuation ...

New super initiative sparks familiar political catfight

... regulation of fees, a ban on exit fees and commissions, a cap on ongoing fees and charges on the 9% compulsory Superannuation Guarantee, tougher enforcement of the law to ensure financial planners give independent and competent advice to consumers and ...

Public Offer super fees to increase: KPMG

... revealed that super funds are expected to increase their fees following the introduction of the quarterly Superannuation Guarantee regime from July 1 "It is highly likely that the costs of administering superannuation will increase with the introduction ...

Superannuation awareness "extremely poor": CPA

... should take greater interest and ownership of their superannuation, through the option of paying mandated superannuation guarantee contributions to the fund of their choice," said Jane Barrett, CPA Australian superannuation policy adviser. "Feedback ...