House debates Questions without Notice
Taxation
Julia Gillard Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister
2:35 pm
Tax as a share of GDP inherited by this government was 23.5 per cent—that is, it had come down from the Howard government's peak as the highest taxing government in the nation's history. For 2011-12, tax as a percentage of GDP will be 21.8 per cent. Importantly, that is less than the tax share—
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