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Here's a radical reform that could keep super and pay every retiree the full pension

  • Written by Kevin Davis, Professor of Finance, University of Melbourne
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The government’s retirement income review is being told our current tax and benefit treatment of retirement incomes is a mess.

Much of financial planning industry is devoted to structuring affairs to maximise access to the age pension.

The means test and other requirements that control access to it are a bureaucratic nightmare...

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