Australia’s Gallagher: Tax Cuts Are ‘Top Up’ on Earlier Relief

Australian Finance Minister Katy Gallagher comments to Bloomberg Television in an interview on Wednesday on the size of the tax cuts offered in the government’s budget.

• “The budget’s always a series of balancing decisions and balancing requests for investment and other ways of dealing with all the pressures on it, but we see these as a good way to provide a bit of relief to households”
• “They’re a top up to the tax cuts that were passed and started flowing in July last year,” she says, adding that when the two are put together it will give the average worker ...