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Age pension spending to rise: ISA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
Industry Super Australia (ISA) said ditching the 12% superannuation guarantee could add over $33 billion to Age Pension spending. ISA said modelling from Rice Warner suggested the Age Pension would have to make up for the superannuation guarantee not ...

Workers being offered nothing: Keating

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... workers. Discussing the suggestion that the current government may forgo the legislated increase in the superannuation guarantee to 12%, Keating said workers are being offered nothing in return for accepting less in retirement savings. "I don't see ...

ASFA calls for super fairness

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... superannuation contributions. The industry body recommended a "dependant contractor" category for the Superannuation Guarantee to ensure fairness in retirement for those who are self-employed or in the gig economy. Further to this, ASFA proposed that ...

NSW pocketed $10bn from ERS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... suburbs like Arncliffe, Bexley and Kogarah, pocketed $292.1 million. ISA's modelling showed that if the superannuation guarantee increase were scrapped, an average 30-year-old man who took $20,000 from their super would either lose $180,000 from their ...

Retirement costs keep rising: ASFA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... the financial position of many Australian retirees," Fahy added. ASFA said the results display why the superannuation guarantee (SG) should be increased from 9.5% to 12% as legislated. This comes in the wake of the government releasing the Retirement ...

SG verdict: Choose your own adventure

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... will retire with 12% to 18% thinner final balances if the government sticks with its plan to increase superannuation guarantee from current 9.5% to the planned 12%, the report says. Its modelling found lower-income earners would be harder hit, with their ...

Frydenberg unveils Retirement Income Review

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
... retirement outcomes delivered to Australians. Frydenberg stopped short of confirming that the legislated superannuation guarantee (SG) will not go ahead next year, citing that "we are living in a different economic environment" thanks to the global pandemic. ...

Majority of Aussies want SG rise: ASFA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
Around 75% of Australians want the superannuation guarantee to rise to 12%, according to a survey commissioned by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). ASFA said 1375 Australians were surveyed in October by Utting Research about ...

BAS agents to expand service offering

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... registered a new legislative instrument to allow BAS agents to expand their services in relation to the superannuation guarantee charge (SGC). The instrument, Tax Agent Services (Specified BAS Services No. 2) Instrument 2020, is the result of extensive ...

Wages will not rise from SG cut: ISA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
Industry Super Australia has hit out at arguments that wages will increase if the planned superannuation guarantee rise is delayed. ISA said the evidence that ditching the SG rise will not help wages can be seen from the last time it was cut in 2014. ...