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Donovan Castelyn, Senior Industry Fellow - Taxation and Director of the UTAS Tax Clinic, University of Tasmania

Is it really worth getting on the pension just to avoid Labor’s new capital gains tax?

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Recent news articles have floated the idea some retirees might try to sidestep the government’s new minimum capital gains tax (CGT) by qualifying for as little as A$1 of the age pension.

That’s because under the government’s proposed tax reforms, people on certain income support payments, including the age pension, would be exempt from the new 30% minimum tax on capital gains.

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