Labor set to adjust imputation reform

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Via the AFR:

Pensioners will be shielded from the brunt of Labor’s plan to axe franking credit refunds after further analysis found low-income retirees could be excluded at little cost to the billons of dollars the measure will save the budget.

Labor will announce the carve out as early as this week, even though internal party polling has shown the policy has not been as damaging among voters as the opposition feared.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.