Noel Whittaker

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Noel Whittaker

Money columnist May 7, 2025 — 5.01am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If I receive a lump-sum payment as part of a genuine redundancy – specifically for unused annual leave and accrued long service leave (Type A) – is this treated as assessable income for tax purposes? And if so, can I offset the tax by making a concessional super contribution before the end of that same financial year?

1 week ago | firstlinks.com.au | Noel Whittaker |James Gruber |Peter Swan |Dimitri Burshtein

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1 week ago | newcastleherald.com.au | Noel Whittaker

A major election promise by Labor was a $2.3 billion Cheaper Home Batteries Program to cut battery costs by about one-third. It is to be done by way of a rebate is based on a battery's usable storage capacity and excludes installation costs. It offers roughly $370 per kilowatt-hour (kWh), equating to about 30% off the battery's base price. For example, a 13.5 kWh Tesla Powerwall 2, priced at around $11,900 (plus installation), would attract a rebate of nearly $5,000.

2 weeks ago | watoday.com.au | Noel Whittaker

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2 weeks ago | firstlinks.com.au | Peter Swan |Dimitri Burshtein |James Gruber |Noel Whittaker

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