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Super tax concessions don't cost $45 billion a year and won't cost more than the pension

  • Written by Andrew Podger, Honorary Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University
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You may have read this week that Australia’s super tax breaks are excessively generous (“well beyond any plausible purpose”) and that their costs unsustainable.

The claim came from a Grattan Institute report, Super savings. But is it realistic?

The figures quoted – A$45 billion a year or 2% of GDP “and set...

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