Super reform will win the election

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The magnificent David Murray has ramped up pressure on Malcolm Turnbull to abandon the Abbottalyptic ban on super concession reform. From the AFR:

The current framework for superannuation tax concessions was “particularly harmful” to low income people, he said.

“In order to deliver value to the Australians in the superannuation system, policymakers will have to come to grips with the fact it doesn’t deliver the value it should, given the vast amount of money people are putting into it via contributions and as a taxpayers”.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.