Who wins a tax election?

Monday 30 April 2018

Phil Coorey kicks us off:

Erasing any doubt that this will be the last budget before voters go to the polls, both Mr Morrison and Labor leader Bill Shorten declared the election would be a referendum on tax.

Mr Shorten said Labor would focus on opposing the company tax cuts, the 10-year cost of which will rise from $65 billion to $80 billion as the new financial year ticks over.

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About the author

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.