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May 6, 2020

Bank dividends are bare. Here’s why some shareholders hate it more than they should

Kevin Davis, The University of Melbourne

Westpac and the ANZ have suspended dividends payments. The National Australia Bank has slashed them. The peculiarities of our tax system explain why retirees hate this more than they should.

February 6, 2020

Here’s a radical reform that could pay every retiree the full pension

Kevin Davis, The University of Melbourne

All that would be needed is to adjust retiree tax scales and tax their super fund earnings at their marginal rate.

Taxable income tells us little about who benefits from imputation cheques. Shutterstock

May 8, 2019

It’s hard to find out who Labor’s dividend imputation policy will hit, but it is possible, and it isn’t the poor

Elizabeth Savage, University of Technology Sydney

Retirees with superannuation balances of $1. pay and pay no tax and get annual imputation cheques of $63,000.

Elections will increasingly be about the generosity of concessions for retirees. Increasingly, they’ll have the numbers. Shutterstock

April 29, 2019

The newest election faultline isn’t left versus right, it’s young versus old – and it’s hardening

Emily Millane, Australian National University

Demographics are making elections about tax concessions, and soon there will be no turning back.

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