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Watch: Sussan Ley backflips on pledge to roll back new tax cuts

Earlier today, deputy opposition leader Sussan Ley backflipped on her comments made on Wednesday indicating the Coalition would roll back changes to stage 3 tax cut.

Watch below for her comments:

PM’s leadership is ‘dead, buried, cremated’: Dutton

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s leadership is “dead, buried, cremated”, says Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, who has slammed the new stage 3 tax package.

Dutton said the introduction of a carbon tax by former prime minister Julia Gillard was the only other example he could think of when a leader was prepared to lie.

“We’ve got a prime minister who’s prepared to lie to the Australian public – I don’t think people will easily forget or forgive,” Dutton said on Sydney radio program 2GB.

“I’ve only seen this once before and that is with Julia Gillard, where somebody was prepared to just blatantly, knowingly, willingly lie to the Australian public and that’s what the prime minister has done.”

The decision to change stage 3 tax cuts has meant Albanese’s “leadership was dead” says Dutton, who expects future leadership challenges.

“I said a week ago, Ray, on your program I think, that if the prime minister abandoned stage 3 tax cuts, then his leadership was dead, buried, cremated. Let me tell you I believe that to be the truth,” he said.

“Jim Chalmers and Bill Shorten and others will be rubbing their hands together with glee at the moment, thinking that the prime minister has completely and utterly destroyed his credibility with the Australian public.

“The Australian public won’t support a liar as prime minister.”

Shadow treasurer says party will oppose rolling back stage 3 tax cuts

Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor says the Coalition will oppose the changes to the stage 3 tax cuts but would not say if they would wind back the changes if elected.

Speaking earlier on Nine’s Today program, Taylor said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers had been lying to the Australian people since December.

“We now know, we learnt overnight, they made this decision back in December so every interview since then where they lied about it is one where they clearly knew they’d already made a decision on it,” he said.

Asked if the Coalition would wind back the changes if they won the next election, Taylor said he would not make an election promise on the program.

“We’re going to oppose the change to the stage 3 tax cuts, which is the first stages,” he said.

“We are supporters of simpler, lower, fairer taxes. I’ve been behind that all my career and I will continue to in the future and we’re going to oppose rolling back these stage 3 tax cuts.”

Warringah MP Zali Steggall ‘struggling’ to support reformed tax cuts

Warringah MP Zali Steggall says she has a major issue with the government breaking trust over the stage 3 tax cuts, saying she has received complaints from people in her electorate.

Speaking earlier on Sky News, Steggall said she still wanted to wait and see the detail and modelling for the government’s reformed stage 3 tax package but was “struggling” with the decision due to integrity issues.

“I overwhelmingly feel this is a decision by the prime minister and the treasurer that is politically motivated in relation to maybe the byelection of Dunkley and also out to suburban seats,” she said.

“Ultimately, the major issue I have is the breach of trust. I accept that circumstances in the economy has changed since the election and cost of living has got more difficult, but that hasn’t been an overnight issue. That’s been happening for six to 12 months.

“People do make plans … I have received emails from people who have indicated, sole income families who have indicated that they were relying on the stage 3 tax cuts as legislated.”

Independent MP Zali Steggall.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

Stage 3 tax cuts were always bad policy: ACOSS

Chief executive of the Australian Council of Social Service Cassandra Goldie has congratulated the Albanese government for its reformed tax cuts, saying it was always bad policy.

Speaking from Canberra, Goldie said that from the beginning stage 3 tax cuts was a poor policy.

“Stage 3 was always bad policy. It was announced at a time when we had a government that was worried it was going to lose an election, that was going to be in a sense booby-trapping an incoming Labor government. Of course, that’s not what happened. Prime Minister Scott Morrison did get re-elected,” she said.

ACOSS chief executive Dr Cassandra Goldie.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

“These tax cuts were always bad policy and so we congratulate the Albanese government for listening to the deep concerns expressed by organisations including ACOSS from the beginning.”

Government not running away from ‘politically contentious’ decision: Chalmers

The government is not running away from its “politically contentious” decision, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says.

Speaking on Sky News Australia, Chalmers said the government was building trust by making the right decisions for the right reasons.

“We understand that this will be politically contentious. Now we understand that people will … point to the comments that we’ve made previously,” he said.

“We’re not running away from those, we understand and we’re being upfront about the fact that we’ve come to a different position.”

Chalmers said that over the course of Christmas the government sought advice from Treasury on how to better confront the cost of living.

“I’ll be releasing the Treasury advice on these tax cuts, and what that Treasury advice will show is that this is better for the economy in the tax cuts that they replace,” Chalmers said.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

Prime minister says every Australian taxpayer will get a cut

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has posted to X – originally known as Twitter – stating every Australian taxpayer will get a tax cut from July 1.

Coalition wants to see detail of new taxes before committing: Paterson

Opposition spokesman for home affairs James Paterson has not backed his colleague Sussan Ley’s comments on Wednesday pledging to roll back the new stage 3 package, saying he wants to see the detail.

Speaking on Sky News Australia, Paterson said the Liberal Party always looked for the opportunity to lower taxes but did not believe the government should have lied.

“We don’t even have the details of these changes, yet it’s been briefed to the media in quite a sneaky and cowardly way that the government actually hasn’t released transparently and we’ll look at the details,” he said.

“We look for the opportunity to lower taxes at every opportunity for every Australian. We just don’t believe you should break an election commitment to do so.

“We’ll announce our own tax policies in good time before the election.”

Opposition spokesman for home affairs James Paterson.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

Sussan Ley backflips on pledge to roll back tax package

Deputy Opposition Leader Sussan Ley has backflipped on her comments yesterday pledging to roll back the Labor government’s new tax package if the Coalition won the next election.

Ley was asked on Sky News yesterday whether the Coalition would “roll back whatever changes are made” and she replied, “Well, this is our position. This is absolutely our position.”

But speaking on ABC Radio National this morning, Ley said she wanted it to be clear that she did not pledge to roll back the new tax package.

Deputy Leader of the Opposition Sussan Ley.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

“I did not say we would roll back Labor’s new proposal. I said we support the existing stage 3 arrangement and we would assess the new proposal,” she said.

“Labor lied about these tax cuts and now they have lied about what I said.”

Asked if the Coalition would vote against the government’s tax reform, which would mean lower taxes for a large group of Australians, Ley would not say if her party would promise to increase taxes.

“Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government … we will assess the proposal,” she said.

“It doesn’t surprise me that Labor is lying about what I said, it doesn’t surprise me at all. What I said was this, our position is the stage three tax cuts should be implemented as designed and endorsed by the Australian people.”

RBA governor was consulted, says Chalmers

Treasurer Jim Chalmers does not accept that the tax cuts will add to demand and keep upward pressure on domestically generated inflation, saying it was not the view of Treasury or the Reserve Bank of Australia.

During his interview on ABC Radio National, Chalmers said RBA Governor Michele Bullock was consulted about the reformed stage 3 tax package.

“We have consulted the Reserve Bank governor, and Michele Bullock … can provide her own view about these tax cuts but obviously in … our usual diligent and methodical way, I have consulted the Reserve Bank governor,” he said.

“[Bullock] has indicated to us that she does not expect what we’re proposing today to alter the Reserve Bank’s forecasts.”

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