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They've cut deeming rates, but what are they?

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
They've cut deeming rates, but what are they?Not cutting deeming rates when other rates are falling keeps people off the pension.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has cut deeming rate for large investments from 3.25% to 3%, and for smaller ones from 1.75% all the way down to 1%, backdated to the start of July.

But exactly is a deeming rate, and why does it matter so much to about one million...

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