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FactCheck: might every household have to pay an extra $4,500 in GST a year?

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imageVarious options for increasing GST have been modelled.AAP Image/Dan Peled

If you’re raising $45 billion then that is effectively saying to every Australian household: you’re going to pay $4,500 more tax every year. – Shadow Assistant Treasurer Andrew Leigh, speaking with journalist Alison Carabine on RN Breakfast, December 9, 2015....

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