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Tax-free super for the super rich is a bad deal for the rest of us – and Morrison said it first

  • Written by: Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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You’d be forgiven for thinking Treasurer Jim Chalmers had done something dramatic.

From 2025 he will double the tax rate on earnings from superannuation balances above A$3 million, lifting it from 15% to 30%.

Only 80,000 Australians have accounts that large, and many of them who have retired have shoved the maximum permissible...

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