Words that matter. What’s a franking credit? What’s dividend imputation. And what's "retiree tax"?
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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You’re forgiven for being confused.
Newspapers need to economise on words. Television and radio reporters need to economise on seconds. So they use shorthand: words like “dividend imputation”,...