Labor eyes adjustments to imputation reform

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Via the AFR:

Low-income retirees caught by Labor’s plan to scrap cash refunds for excess dividend imputation credits could be compensated by other opposition policy measures – possibly including changes to the deeming rate, which is used to determine the level of a pension based on the income from assets.

…Speculation is rife that Labor will lower the deeming rate, which is used to determine the rate of return on a pensioner’s assets.

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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.