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Double-dipping super contributions potential windfall

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2006
... The self-employed and those with two jobs are missing out on a superannuation savings windfall due to a change in the taxation laws, according to a self-managed superannuation specialist. Director of Melbourne based Partners Superannuation Services ...

Aust Scholarships Group waves goodbye to founder

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2006
... career counselling and other services for children and parents and has lobbied government on issues of education and taxation. During Tyler's time with ASG, the mutual organisation has grown in size and scope and today manages more than $1.5 billion ...

Boomer Budget bonanza

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2006
... loud and in such unison? Radical simplification of the super taxes by scrapping the much-hated RBL, abolishing benefits taxation, opening co-contributions to self-employed, major easing of Centrelink restrictions around the interaction of super and social ...

Call for personal tax cuts to plug company tax loophole

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2006
A push to cut top income tax rates was flagged this week as the Board of Taxation chairman, Dick Warburton, said such a reduction would stop people channelling personal income into company coffers. Warburton recently co-authored a report comparing Australia's ...

SG not a tax: Tax Inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2006
... government might budge regarding superannuation taxes, except to acknowledge the complexity of Australia's superannuation taxation regime, albeit while also acknowledging Australia's super funds are lightly taxed, at least in international terms. But ...

Tax reform calls often about welfare not tax: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2006
... of the welfare system," he said. However, in hinting how the report stacks up, he also said the issue with Australian taxation is the emphasis on income. "Well the international evidence shows that compared with most of the developed countries around ...

Super fund taxes break through $5 billion

Total taxation revenue collected by all levels of government in Australia climbed to $230 billion in 2004-05, of which only $5.1 billion was paid by super funds. Super fund taxes, however, have only climbed 8.5 per cent since 200-01, which is significantly ...

Advice is cheap compared to tax return fees

... lodging tax returns through tax agents, then financial adviser fees might almost seem a bargain. According to the 2002-03 Taxation Statistics Report, Australians paid $1 billion in tax agent fees against total wages and salaries of $380 billion, for ...

ASIC launches TAP calculator

... structure that will allow them to more easily satisfy income and assets tests. TAPs are 'complying income streams' under the taxation regime and offer some people advantages over receiving lump sum payouts. Executive director of consumer protection ...

SG is a tax: Tax Inquiry

... unthinkable - an attack on the 9 per cent Super Guarantee (SG). Treasurer Peter Costello has just announced a broad review of taxation in Australia so the government can get clear figures comparing our taxation rates with other countries. Speaking on ...