Beyond debates about the avocado smash generation lies some misnomers on which generation had it better.
- Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
The federal government could save about A$1 billion a year by changing three unfair tax breaks for older Australians, a new report says.
Super is the wrong tool to provide an adequate support in retirement for low-income earners. Our research shows top-up measures to help this group are poorly targeted and too expensive.
A panel of experts on housing respond to Treasurer Scott Morrison’s speech on improving the supply of housing in Australia.
Current super policy is compelling people to save for a higher living standard in retirement than they enjoy during their working lives.
Both the government and opposition’s proposed reforms to the superannuation system will target generous tax breaks given mostly to wealthy retirees.
Labor’s superannuation plan shows some promise for budget repair, if the two parties can compromise where it counts.
Hoping for the best is not a budget management strategy: but Australia can set realistic goals.
What are the key policy challenges facing the new Turnbull government in terms of economic growth and budgets, cities, transport, energy, school education, higher education and health?
With nearly 25 years of uninterrupted economic growth at risk of coming to an end, the new government must make budget repair a priority.
Politicians stumbled over superannuation this week - but there are bigger obstacles they aren’t willing to tackle.
NATSEM’s analysis of the Government’s super tax could easily mislead.
Short-term, the bracket creep measures help high income earners. But longer-term it evens out.
Two government claims about the apparent boost to the economy of company tax are put to the test.
The government made many sensible changes to superannuation tax breaks in the budget. But the move to more flexible annual caps on pre-tax contributions is not one of them.
Lots of changes affect investments made in the past, and no-one suggests they are retrospective.
Budget repair was put off till later, and the net impact of decisions in the budget was small, but it will be easier to defend in the coming election campaign than some other recent efforts.
How Australia spends its money, and how this compares to other OECD countries.
They’re the lines you sometimes hear before or after budgets from governments and commentators of all persuasions. The problem is they go against reality.
Think tank makes case for cutting capital gains tax discount.
Modelling on negative gearing has been reheated but its visible flaws should be noted.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has warned that Labor’s negative gearing policy would deliver “massive shocks” to the residential housing market and drive all investors away. Does that claim stack up?
Negative gearing is not the housing saviour those in the industry claim it to be.
Australia is not Greece. There is no budget emergency in the sense of a patient flat-lining on the operating table. But Australia is like someone who is obese, unfit, and eating too much cheese.
There isn’t a magical formula which compensates everyone for an increase in the GST - but there is a way to ensure fairness.
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