Senate debates Bills

Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living Tax Cuts) Bill 2024, Treasury Laws Amendment (Cost of Living — Medicare Levy) Bill 2024; In Committee


Malcolm Roberts

Malcolm Roberts Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party

7:02 pm

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?

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