Government timing tricks hide the real budget story
- Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW
Timing tricks help politicians avoid dealing with the substance of their policies. That isn’t going to change any time soon.Cindy Zhi, CC BY-NDThis year’s budget may not have had a whole lot of surprises, but it was chock full of crafty timing tricks. The government’s new personal income tax plan is implemented over seven years,...
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