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Potentially unaffordable, and it still won't fix bracket creep. The Coalition's $300 billion tax plan assessed

  • Written by Danielle Wood, Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute
Potentially unaffordable, and it still won't fix bracket creep. The Coalition's $300 billion tax plan assessedThe budget tax cuts aren't tax reform, and probably can't be paid for over the longer term.Mick Tsikas/AAP/Shutterstock

The big surprise in last week’s budget was the size of new income tax cuts – A$158 billion over a decade, in addition to the A$144 billion already promised in last year’s budget.

A lot of the plan doesn’t...

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