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Employers make compulsory payments to these funds at a proportion of their employee's wages. From Jan 2025, the mandatory minimum "guarantee" contribution is 12%. [1] The superannuation guarantee was introduced by the Hawke government to promote self-funded retirement savings, reducing reliance on a publicly funded pension system. [2]
Superannuation funds can claim a capital gains tax discount where the asset has been owned for at least 12 months. The discount applicable to superannuation funds is 33%, reducing the effective tax rate on capital gains from 15% to 10%. [8] No discount or adjustment is available if an asset is sold at a loss.
Effective date 1: Minerals resource rent tax: 30 September 2014 2: Loss carry back 3: Small business instant asset write‑off threshold 4: Deductions for motor vehicles 5: Geothermal energy 6: Superannuation Guarantee Charge percentage: 5 September 2014 7: Low income superannuation contribution: 1 July 2017 8, items 1–11
Superannuation in Australia provides people with workplace pensions in retirement, and employers must pay a "superannuation guarantee" of 12% of income from 2025 to approved funds. [74] There may also be no unauthorised deductions of wages, [75] and there is a right to be paid at least monthly. [76]
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is an Australian statutory agency and the principal revenue collection body for the Australian Government. The ATO has responsibility for administering the Australian federal taxation system , superannuation legislation, and other associated matters.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) administers a pay-as-you-go tax (PAYG) withholding system. Introduced in 1999, it merged 11 previous payment and reporting systems, one of which was a "PAYE" system for employee income, from which the name "PAYG" distinguishes. [8]
Income tax is collected on behalf of the federal government by the Australian Taxation Office. The two statutes under which income tax is calculated are the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 and the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997; the former is gradually being re-written into the latter. Taxable income is the difference between assessable income ...
Since 1 January 2014, all employers must select an approved MySuper account as their default super fund into which they must pay all default super guarantee contributions (minimum employer contributions). [11] However, employees can nominate an alternative investment fund, called a stapled super fund. [11]