How about this time we try, just try, to report on budgets and tax differently?
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
There are just five weeks until the budget, and the usual lists of winners and losers.
Among last year’s winners were said to be single parents, renters and first home buyers. Among the losers were said to be vapers, truckies and consultants.
It’s also how we talk about tax: winners and losers.
On budget night when the changes to the...