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Pre-Christmas delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
... long-awaited US$1.5 trillion tax reform package that will cut the US corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% and the personal income tax rate from 39.6% to 37%... five days before Christmas. Love him or treat him as a joke but POTUS is proving true ...

Ho ho hum MYEFO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2017
... inflation projections out of whack but more importantly, the government would get less revenue than predicted from personal income taxes. Perhaps even more important is the impact of stagnant wages on household consumption - predicted to grow by 2.25% ...

The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... gently and is forward guiding markets about its next move. There's also the promised reduction in company and personal income taxes. Wall Street rallied on hope that it would be implemented this year, what happens when it becomes law? Queen's "don't ...

Powered by low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... period. This lifted growth in real wages from 0.04% to 0.81%. Not only this, the BEA notes that: "Real disposable personal income-personal income adjusted for taxes and inflation-increased 3.2% in the second quarter after increasing 2.8% in the first ...

Government debt on its way to $606bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... the government's pay book over the forward estimates will be the $50 billion increase over the period in annual personal income tax receipts, the $17 billion increase in annual company tax receipts, the $13 billion in cumulative Future Fund earnings ...

New head of advice for industry fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... Australian Catholic Super in 2011 and has more than 20 years' experience in financial services, largely working in personal income tax and audit as a Chartered Accountant in his early career before becoming a Certified Financial Planner and providing ...

Wednesday delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has hinted that POTUS will talk about his tax-reform plan - corporate and personal income tax reform. The US equity market had been riding high on the back of expectations of lower taxes (and increased fiscal spending) ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... from day one suggests that all the things Trump said he would do, Trump would do. Both the good- corporate and personal income tax cuts, infrastructure spending, deregulation - and bad - border tax, immigration and trade protectionism. I have no beef ...

Consumer-powered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
The latest update on US personal income and outlays confirmed the indications from last week's National Accounts that the consumer remains the economy's major driving force. US GDP growth expanded at an annual rate of 1.9% in the fourth quarter with ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... decreasing by 1.3% in September - the sharpest decline since May 2012 -- following 1.2% fall in the previous month. US personal income and outlays Personal income rose by 0.3% in the month of September following a 0.2% increase in the previous month ...