Desperate Scummo to accelerate personal tax cuts

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By Leith van Onselen

There’s more indications today that the Morrison Government will seek to spend Australia’s temporary Budget windfall from higher than expected commodity prices on bringing forward $10 billion of ‘stage-2’ personal income tax cuts – currently scheduled to come into effect from 2022. From The Canberra Times:

The tax cuts, worth up to $1350 or $25 a week for median to high income earners, would wedge Labor into matching or bettering the government’s proposal earlier than expected in a move that would affect 94 per cent of taxpayers…

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.