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Flat White

Our budget has caught a bad case of coronavirus

29 July 2021

5:04 PM

29 July 2021

5:04 PM

There has been much written and spoken about the Morrison Government’s legislated “tax cuts” and Labor’s decision to not oppose them. Let me break the news to readers. There has not been a tax cut. Not even close. What there has been is a tax deferral. 

Governments raise taxes to meet their spending needs and desires.

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