Albanese votes to keep widows tax, breaks another promise

“Today the Albanese government voted to keep the widow’s tax breaking yet another promise to the Australian people”, Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson said. Mr Wilson’s comments come in the wake of Labor and the Greens voting against Coalition amendments in the Senate to repeal the widow’s tax that the Government legislated last week. “The Treasurer claimed on on Sunday that the government would “fix” their flaw in the tax legislation, but couldn’t say how, or when, and now they’ve voted in the opposite direction”, Mr Wilson said.

“The Treasurer was deliberately evasive because he never intended to fix his tax hit on grieving Australians”. “To pass their Budget the Albanese government promised the Parliament and the Australian people they’d fix the widow tax, and today they voted against fixing a problem they caused”. “Jim Chalmers’ budget has changed so many times, he’s lost track of what he supports and what he doesn’t”.

“Labor and the Greens hatched a dirty deal to push their Budget through and haven’t revealed the details, which raises the question: who is on their tax hit list after widows”?