Labor 'must rule out pension tax'

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AUSTRALIA - The Labor party must rule out re-introducing a 15% tax on superannuation payouts in order to maintain Australia's economic growth, assistant treasurer Peter Dutton has claimed.

A group of five left wing unions - described by Dutton as “the power and the pennies” behind Labor – last week called for the tax on super payouts to be reinstated and added failure to do so would ...

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