Fact Check: $77b Coalition tax cuts to go to high income earners

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By Leith van Onselen

ABC’s Fact Check has released a positive assessment of Bill Shorten’s claim that, over a decade, $77 billion of the Coalition’s tax package would go to people earning more than $180,000 a year, which came from figures provided by The Australia Institute:

Prime Minister Scott Morrison countered that he did not accept the figures, as they were sourced from a report by progressive think-tank The Australia Institute…

The verdict

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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.