Income tax or GST

Q. To raise more Government revenue to maintain services and reduce debt, which of the following actions would you favour most?

	Total			Vote Labor	Vote Lib/Nat	Vote Greens	Vote other		Nov 2015
Increase income taxes	29%		39%		21%	42%	30%		27%
Increase the GST	22%		16%		37%	14%	13%		26%
Expand the GST to cover food, health and education	12%		12%		16%	8%	9%		14%
Don’t know	37%		33%		26%	36%	48%		33%

 

 

To raise more Government revenue to maintain services and reduce debt, 29% favoured increasing income taxes, 22% favoured increasing the GST, and 12% expanding the coverage of the GST. This indicates a small shift away from making changes to the GST since this question was asked in November.

 

Liberal/National voters (37%) were more inclined to favour increasing the GST while Labor voters (39%) and Greens voters (42%) favoured increasing income tax.