Economic News

Treasury Laws Amendment (Tax Reform No. 4) was introduced on 27 October and passed the House of Representatives on Thursday 29 October. It is a bill, not law, and still needs to pass the Senate.

By the time the Monetary Policy Board met in early November 2026, financial markets had already formed an encouraging view of what it would do. According to the Financial Conditions chapter of the RBA's November Statement on Monetary Policy, overnight indexed swap (OIS) pricing …

Tax Reform No. 4 was introduced on 27 October and passed the House of Representatives on Thursday 29 October, alongside the trust tax bills. It is a bill, not law.

Tucked into the Outlook chapter of the RBA's November 2026 Statement onMonetary Policyis a sentence that is easy to misread. The cash rate path underpinning the forecasts, it says, "increases by 35 basis points by mid-2027, before declining a little to stabilise at 4.8 …

The Innovative Business CGT Concession was first proposed on 18 June 2026. It is now in legislation that passed the House of Representatives on 29 October with the government's R&D and trust tax bills. It is a bill, not law.

Most attention after the Reserve Bank of Australia's November decision went to the immediate move: on 3 November 2026 theMonetary PolicyBoard lifted the cash rate target by 25 basis points to 4.85 per cent, effective 4 November. Less discussed is a number buried further …

The ATO's new item does not change the law. It is guidance, and it points employers to the factors that determine whether a party or gift creates an FBT liability.