Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 41 - 50 of 92 results for "Imputation"

Franking credits matter, academics say

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... credits," the white paper Do franking credits matter? said, and added that "this behaviour is a key benefit from the imputation system, through contributing to more disciplined use of capital. Dismantling the imputation system could thus have detrimental ...

Tax reform cannot be deferred any longer: AVCAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... rules. "There are features of our existing tax system which we should safeguard for the future. The current dividend imputation system, and the capital gains tax regime and discount, play a vitally important role in supporting long-term capital investment ...

Don't take our franking credits: Taxpayers Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
Removing dividend imputation will lower returns and favour wealthy overseas investors over local retirees who rely on dividend income and the reduced tax from franking credits, according to Taxpayers Australia. TAL head of superannuation and Taxpayers ...

Government urged to leave super taxation alone

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... disturbed by changes to the system, whether the changes are tax related such as taxation rates, concessions or dividend imputation, or otherwise." He urged the Government to share with stakeholders the estimates and assumptions made in calculating the ...

Retirement phase top issue for super in FSI

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... creates a domestic equities bias and prevents the development of a corporate bond market. "While we cannot attest if the imputation system has had the suggested impact on the domestic corporate bond market, we can attest that the system does not create ...

SPAA defends SMSF tax rules

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... significant amount of tax revenue to retirees - applies to all retirees, not just SMSFs. She voiced full support for the tax imputation system, which is under scrutiny from the Financial System Inquiry.

FSI questions viability of franking credits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
The viability of Australia's imputation (or 'franking') credits system has been singled out for review in the Financial System Inquiry's interim report. The report acknowledged that the franking credit system, which refunds corporation tax to low or ...

Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... heavily weighted to riskier assets, mostly equities. This could be explained by a range of factors, including dividend imputation; the availability of the age pension; and historical returns from this asset class relative to others. The issue for the ...

Austock Life appoints national sales manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013
... proven to a relatively narrow band of financial advisers the significant strategy-based planning benefits of using our Imputation Bond master insurance bond platform and the ChildBuilder Bond," Austock Life managing director Ross Higgins said. Record ...

Prime Value launches concentrated equities fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... 28 February 2013, net of management fees but not performance fees). It also manages the income-centric Prime Value Imputation Fund, launched in 2001. Prime Value was awarded Boutique Fund Manager of the Year for the S&P Australian Fund Awards in 2005 ...