The Coalition’s incessant lies that Labor’s signature negative gearing and capital gains tax (CGT) reforms would primarily impact ordinary working Australians has been debunked again, this time by a Fairfax investigation showing that the nation’s wealthiest and largely Liberal-held electorates will be hit the hardest, whereas Labor electorates are among those that would be least hit:
Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen said… “These results are totally unsurprising given that these tax concessions overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest Australians,” he said.
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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.
