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Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2006
... by 1.5 per cent in April. The latest employment and job ads data were taken before the recent RBA rate hike and the May Budget and it is still too early to assess the impact of the latest monetary and fiscal changes on the Australian labour market. In ...

Daily Economic Update

... wages would follow. These, along with the expected reduction in personal income taxes expected to be announced in the May Budget, would increase pressure on the RBA to lift interest rates. However, household spending would be constrained by high petrol ...

IFSA to pressure Government for super tax breaks

... sufficient. And while rumors circulate that there could be a Costello-led charge towards dropping the tax rate in the May budget announcement, Gilbert said the move could deter superannuation savings. "If you reduce marginal tax rates, without dropping ...

Weekly economic round-up

... per cent annual growth rates recorded between late 2001 to mid-2004. The anticipated tax cuts (to be announced in the May Budget) and renewed strength in the labour market could reinvigorate consumer spending going forward. But until then, the trend ...

Voters cool on Latham and tax cuts, poll finds

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2004
... Latham for the first time in two months. The poll also found little public support for big tax cuts tipped for the May budget, with three quarters of those surveyed saying they would prefer the money be spent on public services.

Government revises budget surplus forecasts

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2003
... 2006-07. Expected economic growth for 2004-05 was unchanged at 3.5 per cent. Inflation was lower than expected at the May Budget, forecast to come in at 2.25 per cent this year - from 2.75 per cent - and just two per cent in 2004-05, from 2.5 per cent. ...
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