Crikey reports:
“More than 900,000 working age Australians will keep less than half of their next dollar of private income, a report shows, and more sole parents and women face higher effective marginal tax rates than they did a decade ago,” The Age reports today.
The Oz is blunter. “The number of people losing more than 50c of every extra dollar earned as a result of tax-take and benefit reductions has almost doubled in the past ten years, with middle-income families suffering the most."
So much for John Howard & Co trumpeting how we are all better off. Oh yeah? Read the full Crikey piece here.
“More than 900,000 working age Australians will keep less than half of their next dollar of private income, a report shows, and more sole parents and women face higher effective marginal tax rates than they did a decade ago,” The Age reports today.
The Oz is blunter. “The number of people losing more than 50c of every extra dollar earned as a result of tax-take and benefit reductions has almost doubled in the past ten years, with middle-income families suffering the most."
So much for John Howard & Co trumpeting how we are all better off. Oh yeah? Read the full Crikey piece here.
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