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3.5 million Aussies give financial advice to friends and family: Roy Morgan

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
Roy Morgan research shows millions of Australians are trusted advisers to their friends and family when it comes to finance and investment decisions. The research shows more than 17% of Australians are asked to advise on the financial matters of their ...

Advisers failing to submit SMSF returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... Act 2009." The TPB cites data which shows more than 2500 tax practitioners have not lodged one or more of their personal income tax returns or for those of their associated entities; and more than 1000 have more than one outstanding Business Activity ...

Chief economist update: If you can't beat Trump, copy Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
... form of tax cuts. China's Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Taxation has just published the personal income tax deduction plan (the final version is scheduled to be released by the end of this year) expected to take effect on 1 ...

Life insurance loyalty waning

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... respondents citing this reason for considering switching. In line with this, about half (49.9%) reported annual personal income of less than $100,000. Others cited receiving higher renewal prices than previous years and always shopping around. About ...

Chief economist update: Should have sold in May and gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2018
... to extend the company tax cuts to all businesses, among other incentives. The promised tax cuts on individual personal income should also help raise company revenues. This should partially partly offset continued stagnant growth in wages - the Wage Price ...

Budget big picture: Surplus on radar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... Helping boost the government's ledger over the forward estimates will be the $57 billion or 28% increase in annual personal income tax receipts, the $17 billion or 21% increase in annual company tax receipts, the $14 billion or 22% increase in GST revenues ...

Chief economist update: Budget surplus can wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... $16.6bn in 2017-18 and $13.3bn in 2018-19." These, ScoMo, in all his graciousness, will be spent on company and personal income taxes, spending on infrastructure and health and aged care, among others. Never mind the "promised" surplus, it's election ...

Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... acceleration - from 2.6% in the previous quarter. Not only this but thanks to Trump's tax cuts, real disposable personal income growth quickened to 3.4% from 1.1% in the fourth quarter of last year. So too has the personal saving rate - it grew to 3.1% ...

Shuttering dividend cash loophole to hit SMSFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
... of dividends on two levels: The tax companies pay on profits that are then distributed to shareholders who pay personal income tax on dividends. At the time Keating explicitly stated that: "[imputation] credits will not give rise to cash refunds where ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... GDP growth, up from 1.49 pps in the previous quarter. OK, that's still back in December but the acceleration in personal income growth and more importantly, real disposable personal income -1.8% in the year to the December quarter from 1.1% in the previous ...