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Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« on: March 30, 2015, 03:54:21 PM »
I ran across this today and am wondering if it is true....

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The Federal Government looks set to introduce a tax on bank deposits in the May budget.

The idea of a bank deposit tax was raised by Labor in 2013 and was criticised by Tony Abbott at the time.

Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has indicated an announcement on the new tax could be made before the budget.

The Government is heading for a fight with the banking industry, which has warned it will have to pass the cost back onto customers.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-28/federal-government-set-to-introduce-tax-on-bank-deposits/6355662
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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2015, 05:38:04 PM »
I am not sure what they plan to use the money for, a fund for losses at other banks or another stream of cash for the general fund.
In 2013, the US FDIC in an effort to deal with a rapidly depleting FDIC Insurance fund told all US banks to prepay 3 years worth of premiums so the FDIC would stay solvent.

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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2015, 09:10:04 PM »
Just wait till obummer hears about this.  We will get that tax.

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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2015, 10:07:12 AM »
I ran across this today and am wondering if it is true....

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The Federal Government looks set to introduce a tax on bank deposits in the May budget.

The idea of a bank deposit tax was raised by Labor in 2013 and was criticised by Tony Abbott at the time.

Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has indicated an announcement on the new tax could be made before the budget.

The Government is heading for a fight with the banking industry, which has warned it will have to pass the cost back onto customers.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-28/federal-government-set-to-introduce-tax-on-bank-deposits/6355662


Yeah what you report is true although even here I've only seen about as much as you. I think it's only on deposits over the $250k guarantee or whatever the level is so I haven't taken that much notice :)

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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2015, 10:12:27 AM »
Another big thing mooted by some is that they will start grabbing our super (AKA 401k), there's nearly $2Bn in super just sitting there waiting to be grabbed and it's been my opinion for a few years that they will do so in one form or another, the most likely being that they stop lump-sum payouts and force you to take an annuity.

I don't care as I got all my super out about 5 years ago, the day I turned 55 and was allowed to take it.

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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #5 on: March 31, 2015, 10:24:52 AM »
Hope you have in a sack full of coins under your bed.  Now is an excellent time to strongly consider getting into silver.

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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2015, 06:52:40 PM »
I have been waiting for something like to hit here.

My regular bank tried to charge me last year for my checking account. I told them, "No worries" and started to take my money out. They became all apologetic at my local branch and told me it didn't apply to me due to the 19 years or so I have been with them.  :lmfao:

What a bunch of wankers! 
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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2015, 07:11:34 AM »
Hope you have in a sack full of coins under your bed.  Now is an excellent time to strongly consider getting into silver.

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My super mostly went into land and homesteading stuff, so that's safe, well as safe as anything can be I suppose.

I'm in the process of getting all money out of investments right now. The next step will be to get that cash out of the bank, my first preference is for tangible goods that will keep me alive post SHTF. If there's any left after that then silver is a strong contender.

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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2015, 10:33:55 AM »
Well this phenomenon is spreading from Australia to Switzerland and even in the USofA (Chase Bank).

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It is undoubtedly a huge red flag when in one of the countries considered to be a member of the “highest economic freedom in the world” club, commercial banks are suddenly refusing their customers access to their cash. This money doesn’t belong to the banks, and it doesn’t belong to the central bank either.

If this can happen in prosperous Switzerland, based on some nebulous notion of the “collective good”, which its unelected central planners can arbitrarily determine and base decisions upon, it can probably happen anywhere. Consider yourself warned. As the modern day fiat money system inevitably cruises toward its final denouement, individual rights will come increasingly under attack as the world’s ruling elites and centrally directed banking cartels begin to batten down the hatches.

Better continue stacking, and keep a pile of this within grabbing distance – after all, it can be purchased at a generous discount these days:


The "War On Cash" Migrates To Switzerland by Tyler Durden

Remember as QEing is making your saving's/retirement less and less valuable. Now the government will restrict your availability to your cash.

May I be so bold to suggest:

> Have one months worth of cash on hand. I know...I know  :deadHorse:
> Invest in hard assets like, guns, ammo, tractor, washing machines, etc.
> If you can afford it (Not for everybody) buy PM's. I am doing 1/3 gold to 2/3 silver.
> If you can swing a 20% down and mortgage the rest; buy some farm-able land. They ain't making any new land.

Not to sound too  :tinfoil: how long will cash remain king?
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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #9 on: April 27, 2015, 09:50:53 PM »
That is a bit concerning.

I did find this - http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/debtfree.asp

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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #10 on: April 28, 2015, 07:20:53 AM »
So the HR bill was real but it never passed back in 2010 in a Obama controlled Congress. Good!

Why do these people think that they have a "right" to our money?

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.” - Margaret Thatcher
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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #11 on: April 28, 2015, 01:01:17 PM »
Because they believe they can spend it better than you can.

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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #12 on: April 28, 2015, 03:45:50 PM »
Just curious. Theoretically if the government could spend your money more wisely than you could, would you then be ok with them spending your money?

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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #13 on: April 28, 2015, 06:16:46 PM »
NO!

Experience, benefit or fail = Knowledge.

I want the experience to benefit or fail because in either sense I will learn.
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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2015, 12:15:21 AM »
NO!

Experience, benefit or fail = Knowledge.

I want the experience to benefit or fail because in either sense I will learn.

I agree. Our money is ours regardless of who can use it best.

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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #15 on: April 29, 2015, 10:34:16 AM »
NO!

Experience, benefit or fail = Knowledge.

I want the experience to benefit or fail because in either sense I will learn.

I agree. Our money is ours regardless of who can use it best.

Problem is way too many believe when you run out and cannot make more or support yourself it is up to government to do that because it is up to government to do that because  . . ..

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Re: Australia: Banks Face Tax on Deposits
« Reply #16 on: April 29, 2015, 11:26:31 AM »
Just to add to this thread an article I read from The Telegraph written my Jeremy Warner.

Friends, we are running (Not walking) to global ruin. China is the newest member to start QEing.

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Here’s an astonishing statistic; more than 30pc [%] of all government debt in the eurozone – around €2 trillion of securities in total – is trading on a negative interest rate.

With the advent of European Central Bank quantitative easing, what began four months ago when 10-year Swiss yields turned negative for the first time has snowballed into a veritable avalanche of negative rates across European government bond markets. In the hunt for apparently “safe assets”, investors have thrown caution to the wind, and collectively determined to pay governments for the privilege of lending to them....


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