We've had enough. 9.5% super is just fine
BRENDAN COATES, GRATTAN INSTITUTEIt’s conventional wisdom that Australians don’t save enough for retirement.
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Rate rise an even-money bet as inflation off the floor
At last, an end to the Reserve Bank’s two-year freeze on interest rates is in sight. But not this year, and not because of particularly high wage growth.
Pink vs blue tax: the case for taxing women lightly
If women were to be taxed differently to men, it wouldn’t be the first time.
Treasurer Scott Morrison says the idea is absurd.
“You don’t fill out pink forms and blue forms on your tax return. It doesn’t look at what your gender is any more than it looks at whether you are left-handed or right-handed,” he said last week.
He even said, wrongly, that Labor has been suggesting it.
But such a move has happened before.
The appalling truth about our 'world-class' super
Here’s how you can tell the Productivity Commission was spot-on in its assessment of the superannuation system.
Not a single part of the industry, not one, has explicitly endorsed its key recommendation.
That’s because it is intended to help us: users of superannuation who depend on the industry.
Cry for the banks. They'll pay more than they'll save
Australia’s big four banks and their shareholders will recover very little of the new major bank levy from the proposed cut in company tax, a Fairfax Media analysis has found.
In fact, the proposed company tax cut and the major bank levy would leave banks more highly taxed than they were before the 2017 budget.
The levy, which came into force in the middle of last year, is expected to raise $1.6 billion a year from each of the big four banks and Macquarie Bank.
Here's my big dangerous tax idea: let us keep our money
Suddenly we’ve wised up. As far back as any of us can remember, all the way back to the beginning of income tax, we’ve been easy to bribe.
Here’s how it has worked in every election and in almost every budget: “You’ve been working hard and paying too much tax. We feel your pain. We’ve magically found some money from somewhere. We’re pulling a tax cut out of a hat. You can thank us later.”
Turnbull in best position to offer tax cuts in nine years
A “humongous” lift in Australia’s tax take has put the Turnbull government in the best position to deliver personal income tax cuts in nine years.
How the Coalition ran interference for the banks
The Coalition wasn't merely asleep at the wheel when it came to the practices being exposed at the banking royal commission: it pulled out all stops to allow some of them to continue, including attempting to circumvent the will of parliament, in an extraordinary 12-month burst of activity that began within weeks of its election.