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Future Fund chair attacks RSPT

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... for the mining tax proceeds to be diverted into a proper sovereign fund rather than be used for recurrent government expenditure. Senator Bob Brown, leader of the Greens, on ABC television this week repeated his policy position that the Greens would ...

IGR signals tax and health reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... budget over the next 40 years," said Treasurer Wayne Swann in a statement. The biggest jumps in required government expenditure will be seen in health and age-related pensions, which according to the report will jump two-thirds from a current 7 per cent ...

Back on the road again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... hippy communes in San Francisco - ala 1960s -- and tell them to be "sure to wear flowers in your hair." Government expenditure? How are we going to pay for the US$1,400,000,000,000 -- and growing -- budget deficit? Taxes will increase sharply in the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
The Australian share market may fall a little further on Tuesday after equity markets around the world slumped overnight on concerns about heavy losses in Chinese stocks on Monday. At 0718 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

The market's next 800-pound gorilla

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... issuance. For example, based on forecasts, the US government would have to allocate 16 per cent of total US government expenditure by 2019 on paying interest payments alone. "One of the reasons why there was such an aversion to government debt is because ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
... compared to the three months to March, according to the latest ABS data. Most of that rise came from Federal government expenditure on defence equipment. This was up 8.8 per cent compared to state and local government spending which was up 0.7 per cent. ...

ASFA strongly argues in favour of a cut in super contributions tax

The elimination of the 15 per cent contributions tax on super in next year's budget would benefit the economic wellbeing of Australians and the nation as a whole, than another minor income tax cut, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds ...
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