Mr Fraser said questions concerning taxation and the super system are difficult to debate, but the “Intergenerational Report is another reminder that they are not going to go away”.

These comments follow an acknowledgement by Treasury's executive director of revenue group, Rob Heffron, earlier in the year that Treasury’s tax expenditure statement is “not a policy message”.

Mr Heffron said it is only meant to be a measure of the amount of money “potentially” foregone.

“Some have suggested simply because there is a large measured expenditure, government should necessarily do something about it. That is not the case,” he said.

Others in the super industry have noted the need to adopt a more “sophisticated model” for determining the true cost of superannuation concessions.

AMP SMSF’s head of policy, technical and educational services, Peter Burgess, previously told SMSF Adviser it’s necessary to have a more holistic approach to calculating superannuation tax concessions.

“If we’re going to move this debate forward, we’re going to need a lot more holistic and sophisticated approach to valuing these tax concessions, with a model that does factor in the offset in reductions in the age pension costs,” said Mr Burgess.