Potentially unaffordable, and it still won't fix bracket creep. The Coalition's $300 billion tax plan assessed
- Written by: Danielle Wood, Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute
The budget tax cuts aren't tax reform, and probably can't be paid for over the longer term.Mick Tsikas/AAP/Shutterstock
The big surprise in last week’s budget was the size of new income tax cuts – A$158 billion over a decade, in addition to the A$144 billion already promised in last year’s budget.
A lot of the plan doesn’t...