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Time to shift cost of super mistakes
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| Jeremy Cooper
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Employers who persistently fail to provide accurate information around superannuation contributions should face monetary penalties, according to the chairman of the Cooper Review, Jeremy Cooper.
Cooper told the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds in Brisbane that such measures were justified by the cost of erroneous information on the super system.
Cooper's comments came at the same time as he confirmed the degree to which Australian employers remained trapped in a paper-based system rather than embracing electronic funds transfers.
He said that as many as 38 per cent of employers were still using cheques to pay the superannuation guarantee and half of that number wanted to keep it that way. Cooper said this paper-based approach was costly and ultimately needed to be addressed.
He said that where processing contributions currently cost in the order of five cents per transaction, it was believed possible to get down to as little as two cents.
Cooper said that if employers were to be penalised for persistent mistakes, the money might be paid to the affected super fund or the Australian Taxation Office. He said the penalty should reflect the time and cost of correcting the mistakes flowing from the provision of persistently incorrect data.
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Mike Taylor
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