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OPINION - Tax cuts in this economy? This Tory obsession is a fiscal scorched earth strategy aimed at Labour

How can a nation that has enjoyed no productivity growth in 15 years, is still reeling from the economic shocks of Brexit, Covid and Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and where debt is equivalent to 100 per cent of GDP, afford sweeping tax cuts? The short answer is: it can’t.…

Evening Standard · Jan 26, 2024

Sunak to cut taxes twice more before election, says Tory chair

Richard Holden signals further cuts likely as he plays down polls showing party trailing Labour

The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2024

As Scott Morrison exits, Albanese takes his stage-three tax cuts out to the trash

Was this the plan for stage three all along – that is, did Labor mislead voters to win the 2022 election? And will it matter, if most voters are better off?

The Guardian - AU · Jan 26, 2024

Peter Dutton calls for election over ‘very significant change’ to stage-three tax cuts

Anthony Albanese concedes Labor has changed tax policy but says he had ‘responsibility to act’ given cost of living pressures

The Guardian - AU · Jan 25, 2024

Independent MPs 'conflicted' by tax cut changes

Changes to tax cuts would help lower income Australians, but some independent MPs are concerned about the impact on their affluent constituents.

AAP · Jan 25, 2024

Afternoon Update: Queensland residents prepare for Kirrily; PM begins selling stage-three tax cuts; and Captain Cook statue toppled

Townsville residents issued a ‘shelter in place’ order as Kirrily is updated to category 3 and expected to make landfall on Thursday evening

The Guardian - AU · Jan 25, 2024

Tax change welcomed but groups rue 'missed opportunity'

Welfare groups say the government has missed out on the chance for broader reform, following changes to stage three tax cuts.

AAP · Jan 25, 2024

A broken promise or changed times? Canberrans have their say

'Don't stick with something that might not work.'

The Canberra Times · Jan 25, 2024

The stage-three tax cuts are finally being revised. The rich complaining Labor broke its promise just sound vulgar

Anyone wishing to make hay of Albanese’s ‘broken promise’ deserves to be asked to just whom in the electorate this promise was made

The Guardian - AU · Jan 25, 2024

Treasury estimated stage-three tax cut changes would add 0.1 percentage point to inflation

RBA hasn’t modelled whether Albanese government’s redistribution of tax cuts could add to inflation, but isn’t expected to adjust its forecasts

The Guardian - AU · Jan 25, 2024