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Income tax or GST

9 Feb 2016

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.

 

 

 

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