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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Peter Hannam Economics correspondent

Treasury estimated stage-three tax cut changes would add 0.1 percentage point to inflation

Federal treasurer Jim Chalmers has said the RBA did not think the changes to stage three would affect its inflation outlook.
Federal treasurer Jim Chalmers has said the RBA did not think the changes to stage three would affect its inflation outlook. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

Treasury has estimated the redesigned stage three tax cuts would add just 0.1 percentage point or less to annual price increases – too small to affect the trajectory of inflation.

Treasury analysed how the government’s proposed changes to the distribution of the tax cuts – with those on higher incomes getting less, and lower incomes more – would affect consumption, along with other areas, such women’s participation in the workforce. It deemed the changes to inflation to be small.

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