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Briefing paper

Distributional impact of PUP savings measures

Publisher
Budget Government expenditure Federal government Parliament Taxation Australia
Description

The Palmer United Party recently announced its intention to block a number of government savings measures. This paper provides an overview of the distribution of those measures. The deferral of the increase in the bottom tax threshold was included in the package of measures to abolish the carbon tax. The rest of the measures relate to the ‘other measures’ associated with the repeal of the mining tax.

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