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FactCheck: Has the government introduced 17 new taxes?

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imageNot all the measures listed fit the definition of a tax.AAP Image/Mick Tsikas

We have got 17 new or increased taxes. – Deputy Opposition Leader and Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tanya Plibersek, interview with David Koch on Sunrise, August 31, 2015.

Members of the Opposition have said on several occasions that the government has imposed...

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