Attitudes to Proposed Stage 3 Tax Cuts

Q. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

	NET: Strongly agree/somewhat agree	NET: Strongly disagree/somewhat disagree	Don’t know
Maintaining funding for education and health is more important than cutting taxes for people earning more than $200,000	78%	12%	10%
I think people earning over $150,000 should pay a higher rate of tax than those earning $40,000	74%	17%	8%
A $95 billion tax cut for high income earners will make it impossible for government to deliver essential services	57%	25%	18%
I support reducing taxes by $11,000 per year for people earning over $200,000	32%	55%	13%

• Over three-quarters of voters favour funding for education and health over tax cuts for high earners.
• Those most likely to say they supported reducing taxes for high income earners were also younger (40% of 18-34 year olds strongly agreeing) and wealthier (41% of high income earners strongly agreeing). Retirees were less likely to support the policy (66% net disagreeing).

	NET: Strongly agree/somewhat agree	Labor	Coalition	Greens	NET: Other
Maintaining funding for education and health is more important than cutting taxes for people earning more than $200,000	78%	85%	74%	89%	76%
I think people earning over $150,000 should pay a higher rate of tax than those earning $40,000	74%	83%	68%	85%	74%
A $95 billion tax cut for high income earners will make it impossible for government to deliver essential services	57%	65%	52%	63%	60%
I support reducing taxes by $11,000 per year for people earning over $200,000	32%	27%	43%	23%	25%

• Labor and Greens voters were more likely to agree with statement ‘Maintaining funding for education and health is more important than cutting taxes for those earning more than $200,000’.
• They were also more likely to agree that ‘People earning over $150,000 should pay a higher rate of tax than those earning $40,000’, and that ‘A $05 billion tax cut for high income earners will make it impossible for government to deliver essential services’.
• Coalition voters were more likely to agree with ‘I support reducing taxes by $11,000 per year for people earning over $200,000’, with 43% strongly agreeing compared to 27% of Labor voters, 23% of Greens voters and 25% of Other voters.