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‘A beat up’: Chalmers refutes having godlike powers over CGT details
Jim Chalmers, heading over to the Today Show studios, is challenged over the government’s power to add details on the capital gains tax changes, after the first tranche of legislation was introduced last week.
This is another beat up. It’s not unusual in tax legislation for the definitions to be settled in what’s called legislative instruments.
Workers on the minimum wage and on awards need and deserve a decent real increase today.
We’ve made that very clear [that] higher wages and lower taxes are the best way to help working people with the cost of living by making sure that people are earning more and keeping more of what they earn.
