November 2020
Catch up: Banking & Wealth Summit webcast
See what Josh Frydenberg, Matt Comyn, Wayne Byres, Karen Chester and others told the summit today.
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April 2016
Super industry 'preys on financial illiteracy': former ACCC boss
The former head of the competition regulator has accused superannuation funds of encouraging complexity and stifling competition to keep fees lucratively high.
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- Joanna Mather
September 2015
- Opinion
- The AFR View
National Reform Summit: meeting with PM must be bold
The PM has put his authority behind the National Reform Summit. The core members must take advantage of it.
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- The Australian Financial Review
Super tax breaks reform 'a very high priority'
Business leaders agree that curbing superannuation tax breaks and replacing stamp duty are higher priorities than cutting the company tax rate.
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- Joanna Mather
Start-up tax break to get investors on board
Wealthy investors would be able to claim tax deductions on their capital stake in high-risk start-ups if a big four accounting firm's proposal garners support.
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- Misa Han
When an economist's chart matters; sorting through the tax debate
This chart could blow a nerdy Treasury official away - and it's at the centre of Australia's nascent tax debate.
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- Jacob Greber
Tax experts back GST income tax switch
Tax experts rejected claims by the Australian Council of Social Services that a reform package that cut income taxes but raised the GST would not provide much of a boost to the economy.
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- Ben Potter
GST hike 'inevitable', says Labor's Brumby John Brumby
One of the most successful Labor treasurers, John Brumby, has challenged Federal Labor and the union movement's opposition to hiking the GST.
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- Jacob Greber and Ben Potter
- Opinion
- Special Reports
ScoMo gives some new shape to the tax debate
Just as the tax reform debate threatened to choke itself on too many conflicting agendas, our new Treasurer has injected a rather important ingredient: the need to define a reason to do it all.
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- Laura Tingle
- Opinion
- Special Reports
Tax Reform Summit: Beware anything that looks simple in tax reform
There's always a lot of talk about fairness in the tax system.
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- Jennifer Hewett
- Exclusive
- Special Reports
Treasurer Scott Morrison wants to unlock retirees' home wealth
Treasurer Scott Morrison will ditch all international commitments and dedicate himself towards convincing ordinary people of the need for tax reform.
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- Phillip Coorey
Lifetime cap on super could be as low as $650,000
It should be a tax reform priority to scrap the annual limit on how much people can save within the generous tax settings of superannuation and replace it with a lifetime cap.
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- Sally Rose
- Opinion
- Special Reports
AFR Tax Summit: Towards a grant tax reform bargain
It's understandable that the new Treasurer, Scott Morrison, should want to rule out increasing the Medicare levy as an answer to the states' health budget problem, but it would be unrealistic of the Turnbull government to expect that the tax reform package can exclude other politically unwelcome changes to the income tax system.
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- Alan Mitchell
Superannuation is Australia's greatest tax lurk
Tax shelters for the wealthy will be the likely trade-offs in any tax reform package that alters the GST or reduces the corporate tax rate.
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- Joanna Mather
Nick Greiner slams Scott Morrison for narrowing tax debate
Liberal elder statesman Nick Greiner has slammed Treasurer Scott Morrison for ruling out an increase in the Medicare Levy urging both sides to keep all options open.
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- Geoff Winestock
- Opinion
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Malcolm Turnbull should put financial services GST on the table
I will consider Mike Baird's proposal of a 15 per cent GST but in return, other governments should consider broadening the GST to all financial services.
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- Jay Weatherill
- Opinion
- Special Reports
AFR Tax Reform Summit: Reform doesn't come as easy as talk of it
There's no mistaking the new enthusiasm in business about the prospects of tax reform under a Turnbull government.
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- Jennifer Hewett
Tax reform summit: ACTU says company tax rate is 'perhaps' too high
ACTU president Ged Kearney said she was willing to be part of a debate about whether the 30 per cent corporate tax rate is too high.
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- Ben Potter
Ken Henry advises Malcolm Turnbull to delay tax reform
Former Treasury secretary Ken Henry says he would advise Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to defer the tax reform package until after the next election.
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- Fiona Buffini
Australia does not tax foreign investment as 'it's all debt'
The government has declined to close a loophole that allows foreign investors to use "equity described as debt" to ensure they are taxed at zero or at most 10 per cent.
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- Neil Chenoweth