Modern Australian

does Australia need personal income tax cuts?

  • Written by Saul Eslake, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania

In this series - Budget policy checks - we look at the government’s justifications for policies likely to be in this year’s budget and measure them up against the evidence.

In this piece we look at the need for personal income tax cuts.


A large proportion of any cut in personal income tax - especially if the cuts were skewed towards...