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Your income tax questions answered in three easy charts: Labor and Coalition proposals side by side

  • Written by Danielle Wood, Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute
Your income tax questions answered in three easy charts: Labor and Coalition proposals side by sideTo start with each side offers a "lamington" (Low and Middle Income Tax offset), then the differences get serious. Shutterstock/Grattan Institute

The two major parties have kicked off the election campaign with very different policies for cuts to personal income tax.

The Coalition promises its tax plan will deliver “lower, simpler, fairer...

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