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Andrew Brown

Taxpayers to get $10 a week cut in pre-election budget

Treasurer Jim Chalmers is promising taxpayers extra relief worth hundreds of dollars each year. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Taxpayers are being promised $10 a week of relief in a pre-election sweetener, as Jim Chalmers lays out the economic case for a second term of a Labor government.

In his fourth federal budget handed down on Tuesday night, weeks before Australians go to the polls, the treasurer revealed the average earner would be $536 a year better off once the tax cuts are fully implemented.

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