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Good Budget, bad Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... in the 2013/14 MYEFO, lowered again to 4.50% in the 2014/15 MYEFO and last night, there was a big thud with the Budget Papers dropping nominal GDP growth in the economy to 3.25%. It's the same thing with the unemployment rate - predicted to be 5.0% for ...

No new taxes on super welcomed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... government and treasury to ensure that cost recovery guidelines are applied in raising supervisory levies," he said. The budget papers show the cost of super tax concessions is expected to rise to more than $50 billion by 2018-19, A and Garcia said AIST's ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... 2014/15 GDP growth, not the feared 0.3 - 0.5 percentage point subtraction. The growth estimates contained in the Budget papers are conservative. Real GDP is forecast to ease from 2.75% in 2013/14 to 2.5% next fiscal year before accelerating to 3.0% in ...

Bored to zzz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... cuts to welfare for I cannot be sure for sure how many of 'em recommendations I would get to read printed on the Budget papers. Relatively calm periods like these should be good for investors...but not with markets either fully or overvalued. Ho-hum... ...

Greens propose scaled super contribs tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... the superannuation taxation subsidies is projected to be $152 billion over the next four years, according to the Budget papers. "It's time that we had a sensible discussion in the community about building a fairer tax system and helping people saving ...

Untargeted tax subsidies inept

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... 'Can the taxpayer afford 'self-funded' retirement", reveals that within five years - according to the Commonwealth Budget Papers - the costs of the nation's superannuation taxation subsidies will climb to $45 billion and become the government's single ...

Untargeted tax subsidies inefficient

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... taxpayer afford 'self-funded' retirement", where they reveal that within five years, according to the Commonwealth Budget Papers, the costs of the nation's taxation subsidies will climb to $45bn and become the government's single biggest expenditure ...

You beauty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... worth short and not bother you with the details. They're all over cyberspace. But if you want to go through the Budget Papers, you can read them on www.budget.gov.au. How Wayne could conjure a A$1.5 billion surplus and still manage to spread the wealth ...

A surplus in 2012/13, and then what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... Euromoney Magazine's "Finance Minister of the Year" (2011) Wayne Swan in May last year as he delivered the Australian Budget Papers. Back then, the Budget Papers show the government expects the underlying cash balance to fall from a deficit of A$49.4 ...

Future Fund not for sale: Wong

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... Minister Wong further said that the timing of the sale of these assets is a matter for the Future Fund and that the budget papers simply reflect the assets the Future Fund plans to hold going forward. "Any funds raised from the sale of non-financial ...