Business

Q+A: After last week’s Budget, I am now weighing up my options on whether I should sell an investment unit. Can I park the proceeds in super to dodge the tax blow?

New income tax rates that take effect in six weeks mean it’s time for many superannuation members to revisit their voluntary contribution levels, or risk wasting up to $3400 in unnecessary tax.

If you’re involved in a family trust, special tax concessions announced by Treasurer Jim Chalmers last week mean now might be the time to rearrange your affairs.

Both the government and opposition are non-committal on whether Australians should continue to receive a petrol tax discount.

BEN HARVEY: How will the gas reservation scheme work? No one seems to know.

A budget airline has axed two major Australian routes to Bali, citing the surging price of fuel.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is being accused of introducing a death tax by stealth with Budget proposals on family trusts and investment properties.

The largest single amount waiting to be banked is $1.3 million.

CBA’s record sell-off has raised a bigger question for investors: if Australia’s largest stocks start to wobble, how much strain Australia’s top stocks take?

THE ECONOMIST: The largest supply shock in petroleum history is getting larger fast. 

Supermarket prices could stay higher for longer following a ruling that Coles misled its customers with non-genuine discounts, according to one retail expert.

Home brand products are ‘closing the trust gap’ in the supermarket aisle.

One of Australia’s most successful entrepreneurs has slammed Labor’s budget and said they would never have started a global empire under the new capital gains tax rules.

Xero is trying to claw its way out of the software stock wreckage by leaning into the very force that helped put it there: artificial intelligence.

In his first formal Budget reply Opposition Leader Angus Taylor will detail the bold and expensive pledge as One Nation claims credit for coalition’s policy of cutting welfare for migrants.