You’d never know it from some of the “socialist tax grab” outrage this week, but Jim Chalmers isn’t the first treasurer to act on this super rort.
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The Treasurer pointed out the majority of the about $50 billion in super tax breaks go to high income earners
In policy terms, these are important debates. Politically, though, anything to do with superannuation is fraught, especially for a government already grappling with difficult economic issues
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has used words with specific meanings in the objective he intends to legislate, among them “preserve”, “dignified”, “equitable” and “sustainable”.
Your super is likely exposed to major nature-based risks. How big a risk? We don’t know - because to date, banks and super funds haven’t looked into it. But that’s likely to change
Critics of Jim Chalmers’ plan to use superannuation to pay for social housing say super holdings belong to members. But social housing is a reliable investment and benefits everyone.
Commonwealth Bank data shows the Australians who withdrew super spent more, but paid down their debt.
Unemployed Australians who accessed their super during COVID stayed on benefits seven weeks longer than similarly-placed recipients who did not.
Making sure your fund’s financial values align with your ethical values isn’t that simple – but here’s what you can do.
The requirement that super funds act in the best financial interests of their members is up for review, as is the nature of the performance test that weeds out poorly-performing funds.
Our research shows the co-contribution scheme does little to help low and middle-income earners. The new Albanese government should consider discontinuing it – saving hundreds of millions of dollars.
Australian retirees die with most of the super they had when they finished work. There’s a measure in the budget that threatens to entrench that.
Opinion and evidence differ on minimum wage policies, but one thing seems clear – they need to be better integrated within a wider economic support strategy.
The Australian government’s spending on its biggest tax concessions has jumped 24% in the past year.
HouseMate would sell homes for little more than the cost of construction, allowing the use of super for the deposit and mortgage payments.
Depending on circumstances, it may be time to re-think the bias to paying down housing debt over wealth accumulation in super. At least to do the sums, so you can make an informed choice.
ASIC suspects some super fund trustees of using inside information for personal gain, but they might not be caught by the insider trading laws.
For young people, super is the biggest single asset they have – so it’s worth knowing what the law says on how it could be split if a relationship ends.
One in every six MySuper funds failed the test. One million members will be invited to leave, and it’ll be made easy.
Australian retirees can keep stashing away more superannuation, unused, for another year, even though the crisis prompting the concession has passed. The big winners? Rich retirees and their kids.
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