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Circumvent The Surcharge

Tuesday July 1, 1997
ALTHOUGH the Medicare surcharge for high-income earners without private health insurance kicked in yesterday, it is not too late to get health insurance coverage and avoid the bulk of the surcharge which you'll be hit with at the end of the tax year. The surcharge is an additional 1 per cent tax

Private Health Funds Seen As Way Out Of Surcharge

Tuesday July 1, 1997
High income earners had rushed to avoid paying a 1 per cent income tax surcharge by taking up cheap private health insurance policies with big excesses, NSW's biggest fund, MBF, said yesterday. The statement came as the Minister for Health, Dr Wooldridge, warned that it was "a fact of life&q