Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, you said you return bracket creep when it suits you and when you can afford it. Doesn't that mean that you're taking money off taxpayers, and that it's really a stealth tax because taxpayers don't know they're moving into a higher tax bracket? Bracket creep is when the brackets stay the same but people's wages inflate and they move into a higher tax bracket—so they automatically pay a far higher rate of tax in the next bracket and they don't even know it. Isn't that tax by stealth?