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GST increase would deliver $42 billion: FSC

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... proposals including a 22% company tax rate by 2020; lower personal income taxes; abolition of state stamp duties; and a higher GST. FSC director of policy, Andrew Bragg, said Australia's heavy reliance on company and personal taxation must come to an ...

Risk reforms ignore key adviser concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... commission, if you can call it that, to actually securitise." Swanson did note, though, that the reform package seemed to exclude GST: "I don't know about you, but if I buried your pay by 10%, would you have an opinion about that? "Directionally the ...

Macquarie refunds $5.5m after 13-year system errors

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... Wrap platform and included charging fees over the maximum amount in product disclosure statements and applying insufficient GST credits. Macquarie worked with ASIC, appointing independent consultant Deloitte, to investigate the errors and determine the ...

Industry bodies respond to Hockey's tax debate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... the family home, tax treatment of superannuation, the pension assets and income tests, personal and company tax rates, the GST and capital gains, all should be considered in the review." She added, "The financial services industry, which is growing at ...

Remove adviser double tax: AFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  SUNDAY, 12 OCT 2014
... Australian state. At the moment, the licensee is required to pay payroll tax on self-employed advisers, in addition to the GST paid for the services provided to clients. The AFA warned that licensees may transfer this additional tax to advisers by increasing ...

FEATURE: Bulldozing the infrastructure roadblocks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... interesting initiative and one worth looking at. I welcome the incentive and I like the fact that it is quarantined from the GST process." The superannuation and investment management industries universally welcomed the measures. REST chief executive ...

States urged to recycle infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... interesting initiative and one worth looking at. I welcome the incentive and I like the fact that it is quarantined from the GST process." In November last year, Nahan announced his government was planning the sale of a number of infrastructure assets. ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Hockey signals pension age might climb to 70

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... the revenue from the existing company tax. Hockey said, "alternatively that is more than all the revenue collected by our GST," implying that the debate around increasing and broadening the GST base is not a significant enough structural policy change ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014