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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
imageThe 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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