“The need for change is undeniable,” says Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, issuing a timetable for dealing with recommendations from the royal commission into banking, superannuation and financial services.
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A new Grattan Institute study finds that for the first time in a long time, young Australians are no better off than those who came before, and are likely to do worse.
Liberal senator Andrew Bragg is one of the Coalition backbenchers who oppose the scheduled superannuation guarantee rise to 12%. They are looking to the retirement incomes inquiry to leverage change.
Making super voluntary for low earners, as proposed by a Liberal senator would leave more women vulnerable in old age.
This week, Morrison told his backbench to keep their opinions in line or internal, appointed a man he’s personally close to as his new head of the Prime Minister’s department, and put the public service in its place.
There is a case for not proceeding with, or at least deferring, the legislated increase in employers’ compulsory super contributions, but it isn’t the one the Grattan Institute makes.
New calculations suggest middle earners will earn less over their lives if compulsory super is ramped up from 9.5% of salary to 12% as scheduled.
It is widely believed that compulsory super saves the government money on pensions. It does, but nowhere near enough to pay for the accompanying tax concessions. Lifting compulsory contributions will make things worse, for a century.
47% of Australians aged 55-64 have mortgage debt, up from 14% in 1990.
Retirees with superannuation balances of $1. pay and pay no tax and get annual imputation cheques of $63,000.
In an election about wages, it is bizarre that both sides are planning to raid them to lift compulsory super.
Demographics are making elections about tax concessions, and soon there will be no turning back.
The next government can make its own luck, but it needs to focus on what matters and ignore the rest.
Both sides have different perceptions about how what the government characterises as a “retirement tax” - the franking credits change – will play out politically.
Our retirement incomes system has been built around the assumption that most will own their own homes. New projections suggest it’s no longer valid.
If you’ve got money and are in your mid-60s you’ll be able to funnel more into super without even working under a budget plan that makes a mockery of super.
The promised surpluses won’t last unless we stop giving older Australians more and more and asking them to pay less and less.
A full throated inquiry into superannuation and whether we need more could be the last best thing the Coalition does.
Superannuation fund supremo Greg Combet has a radical idea: to promote the business concept of ‘long-term value’.
Gender lens analysis identifies risks and opportunities early. It is catching on.
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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