Dutton’s ‘aspiration’ to end tax bracket creep is too little, too late
The opposition leader’s eleventh-hour ambition to some time in the future automatically adjust the income tax scales in line with inflation is a worthy idea but comes too late.
If Peter Dutton had committed months ago to ending income tax bracket creep by indexing the tax scales, he would have given himself a better shot at winning the election.
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John Kehoe is economics editor at Parliament House, Canberra. He writes on economics, politics and business. John was Washington correspondent covering Donald Trump’s first election. He joined the Financial Review in 2008 from Treasury. Connect with John on Twitter. Email John at jkehoe@afr.com
