Aware Super head of infrastructure Mark Hector has warned that broad tax changes risk turning foreign capital away from Australian shores, shrinking buyers for existing assets and infrastructure projects and hurting pension funds’ returns.
As foreign institutional investors face higher capital gains taxes and restrictions on tax concessions, Hector said Australia’s big super funds would suffer from the flight of foreign investors and there wouldn’t be enough capital to fund the country’s “AI hope”.
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