Ninety percent on people barely scraping by while comparable countries tax their lowest earners at just twenty-three percent—that’s highway robbery, plain and simple. We’re not asking for charity, just a scrap of fairness: bring this jacked-up rate down to thirty percent so the people who need every penny the most aren’t crushed under the boot of the taxman.
The numbers behind the demand
Previous
90%
Tax rate when demanded
Right now
17%
Current tax rate
— delivered
What voters want
≤ 30%
Cut the rate to no higher than 30%
🎉 Delivered on May 2, 2020 via the budget that passed.
Next election on 22 June 2030 (in 5 years).
Pledges (1)
Red Green Labor
pledged March 1, 2020
Delivered
“I pledge to deliver this demand very soon”