Peter Dutton’s tax indexation ‘aspiration’ has merit – so why didn’t we hear about it before?
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Peter Dutton, now seriously on the back foot, has made an extraordinarily big “aspirational” commitment at the back end of this campaign.
He says he wants to see a move to indexing personal income tax – an assault on the “bracket creep” that sees people pushed into higher tax brackets when their income rises due to...