Don't touch super, negative gearing or capital gains, says Costello
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The government has been warned not to touch superannuation and capital gains tax concessions and to leave the rules on negative gearing alone.
The government has been warned not to touch superannuation and capital gains tax concessions and to leave the rules on negative gearing alone.
Tully fruit grower Cynthia Sabag and her husband Piuf doesn't want to hear about Queensland government's plans to re-introduce tough anti-tree clearing jobs.
Employers added more workers in February than projected but average hourly earnings dropped by 0.1 per cent from the prior month.
There are sound in-principle arguments in favour of cutting company taxes. The trouble is, hardly anyone wants to listen to them.
The huge drag on investment, growth and jobs caused by 4½ years of falling commodity prices may be starting to ease, says one of the nation's top forecasters, raising hopes a so-called "income recession" will soon end.
ECB president Mario Draghi's "whatever it takes" spell to save the euro appears to have fizzled.
Treasury Secretary John Fraser said he found a world in which countries did not see negative interest rates as anything unusual "very confronting".
Former PIMCO king Bill Gross has warned that negative interest rates represent the final, dying gasp of financed-based capitalism.
Brazil, which is spending $14 billion to stage the Olympics in six months, has the worst economy in 20 years as GDP contracted 3.8 per cent.
Shadow assistant treasurer Andrew Leigh says a tax policy that aims to reduce spending by tackling loopholes remains the best way to reform ...
The national accounts show that Australia's economic rebalancing is no flash in the pan: the RBA can keep its tinder dry.
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