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Govt infrastructure fund falls well short

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... right direction but falls well short of what's needed, according to one infrastructure investor. Following the Henry Tax Review, the government has proposed to establish an infrastructure fund that will make annual contributions starting at $700 million ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... an unexploded bomb in New York City, and China's decision to increase bank reserve ratios, he said. "With the Henry tax review, people don't fully understand the whole saga behind that and I think we're seeing a classic case of sell first and ask questions ...

Simple tax is too taxing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... instead of Dr. Ken Henry. Look around you...pick up a paper...click on a mouse, and you're sure to find Dr. Ken Henry Tax Review splattered across the headlines. For yesterday his two years' worth of toil reviewing Australia's tax system was finally ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... strategist Michael Heffernan said it was a disappointing day on the market. "Overhanging the resources sector is the Henry Tax Review and the uncertainty about resources rent tax," Mr Heffernan said. "ANZ's results, which I thought was very good, was ...

Contribs rate during GFC still 23 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... substitution effect'. The APRA figures also lend weight to speculation as to why the government is relying on the Henry Tax Review for recommendations regarding changes to the structure of superannuation tax concessions - to act sooner risks undermining ...

IGR signals tax and health reform

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... compulsory superannuation contributions. However, it is most likely such proposals will have to wait until after the Henry Tax Review has finalised its recommendations regarding changing to tax expenditures and how superannuation tax concessions are ...

HLB Mann Judd search for Henry clues

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... regarding the outcome of the Henry Review, Jolyon Dare, tax director at HLB Mann Judd in Sydney, reckons the Henry Tax Review will not touch the dividend imputation system. "Henry says that in the short-term the time has not yet come to abandon imputation ...

Challenger takes annuities to platforms

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
Challenger has launched its Guaranteed Income fund, a unitised annuity investment fund onto the BT Wrap platform following financial planner demand for more income products. The fund invests in annuities issued by Challenger Life and investors can select ...

Tax system should improve wellbeing: Henry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... matters, and good government means having effective tools to improve people's lives. These lessons are pushing the Tax Review to focus on the key themes of the ageing population, environmental degradation, managing the impacts of globalisation and technological ...

Streamline super concessions to boost contributions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... superannuation equity but boost contribution rates. The proposals are contained in their supplementary submission to the Henry Tax Review. Central to their proposals is that the tangled web of salary sacrifice arrangements, multi-faceted super tax deductions ...