Level of tax

Q.  Do you think the following pay too much tax, not enough tax or about the right amount?

	Total
	Pay too much	Don’t pay enough	Pay about right amount	Don’t know
Large businesses	5%	61%	19%	15%
Small businesses	40%	6%	39%	15%
People on low incomes	43%	6%	41%	10%
People on average incomes	38%	6%	47%	9%
People on high incomes	12%	59%	19%	10%
Mining companies	5%	61%	19%	15%
Retirees on large incomes	15%	29%	35%	20%
Large carbon emitters	6%	59%	17%	18%
Large international companies (such as Google and Apple)	3%	68%	11%	18%
Religious organisations	4%	56%	18%	22%

From the groups listed, people on low income (43%), small businesses (40%) and people on average incomes (38%) were the group Australians were most likely to think pay too much tax.

More than half of Australians believe that ‘large international companies’ (68%), ‘large businesses’ (61%), ‘mining companies’ (61%), ‘large carbon emitters’ (59%) and ‘religious organisations’ (56%) do not pay enough tax.

The table demonstrates that the results were not remarkably different across the two voting groups analysed.

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