Q. Do you think that making big multinational corporations pay more tax would be good for the economy because it would increase Government revenue or bad for the economy because these companies would stop investing in Australia?
Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | Mar 2015 | |||
Good for the economy | 60% | 64% | 57% | 75% | 64% | 60% | ||
Bad for the economy | 11% | 10% | 14% | 4% | 12% | 13% | ||
Don’t know | 29% | 27% | 29% | 22% | 23% | 27% |
60% think that making big multinational corporations pay more tax would be good for the economy because it would increase Government revenue and 11% think it would be bad for the economy because these companies would stop investing in Australia. These results are much the same when this question was asked in March 2015.
A majority of all voter groups believe it would be good for the economy. 67% of respondents aged 55+ and 66% of those with university degrees think it would be good for the economy.