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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
... operations in Australia. Labor has considered lifting the existing rate from 125 per cent to 150 per cent, the Howard government offers as much as 175 per cent for the labour component once a three year record has been established.

Super changes drive up bottom line: Rice Walker

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2006
... Walker Actuaries believes that recent proposed changes to the superannuation industry being pushed through by the Howard Government will drive accumulated assets up 16 per cent above previous estimates by the year 2020. Speaking at a seminar at Parliament ...

Sherry wins Labor votes with simple super plan

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2006
... address the industry's current difficulties with super switching and poor disclosure practices, attacking the Howard Government's reforms, which he said were largely to blame for consumer confusion over the issue. "FSR disclosure is a dud when it comes ...

Labor unveils plan to export financial services

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
... Asian AUM could be invested offshore over the next 20 years. But he said current export growth rates under the Howard government have been in rapid decline from the period of 1996 to 2000, as compared against those between 1983 to 1996, when insurance ...

Labor launches 6-point super plan

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
... plan at the conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) in Queensland yesterday. Beazley said under the Howard Government lost superannuation has blown out from $5.5 billion to $8.2 billion in five years while tax on super has jumped from $1.6 billion ...

Super splitting to go ahead in new year

Couples can now plan their superannuation together, as the Howard Government passed the long awaited splitting superannuation bill through senate on Friday night. The bill is expected to allow contributions made on or after January 1, 2006 to be split ...

Income Tax Law to be cut by nearly 30 per cent

... draft Bill formalising these Tax Law reduction is expected to be ready for release early next year. Since the Howard government was elected in 1996 on a platform of 'red-tape' reform, this announcement is a long time in coming, especially as the GST ...

ACTU renews call for 15 per cent SGC

... demand for an 'investment-led reform agenda focussed on the supply side of the economy'. Combet criticised the Howard government's industrial relations reforms and said they were a 'backward-looking agenda to cut labour costs'. He also threatened to ...

AXA chief claims mandatory super increases will not boost retirement

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2005
... that his government had intended to introduce the 15 per cent super savings but it was rejected by the incoming Howard government at the time. He also said the current nine per cent contribution was not enough to sustain workers in retirement without ...

RBA keeps hand off rates

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2005
... decision was a welcome breather for Australian families, but the government still had a lot of work to do. "The Howard government is not off the hook here," he told reporters. "The capacity constraints on the economy that are putting upward pressure ...