Lots of noise this week about the revamped stage 3 tax cuts. It’s worth remembering first that 2 in five Australians pay no tax because they do not earn enough, so this is change is certainly not going to impact every household.
Anthony Albanese had repeatedly committed to delivering stage 3 as legislated by the Coalition – but told the National Press Club on Thursday, “When economic circumstances change, the right thing to do is change your economic policy. That’s what we are doing.”
At one level of course this is another broken promise – just like the superannuation tax cap which came in last year. Presumable the calculus is more people will benefit than not, and it’s a long time to the next election, so people will forget. We will see.
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