Tax on super will send investors elsewhere THE recently released statistics by the Australian Taxation Office might not quite be hot off the press, closing off as they do on June 30, 2011, but they paint a fascinating picture of our financial lives. There are about a million individual taxpayers who run a business as a sole trader or in partnership with someone else. Unless they work part-time for an employer and run their business in their spare time, compulsory employer super has never been part of their lives.