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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Greg Jericho

The stats don’t lie. Australia’s tax system is designed to benefit the wealthiest and the rest of us pay for it

An aerial image of waterfront properties in Point Piper, Sydney
In Australia, ‘asking who is rich is a question that can send shivers down the spines of politicians’. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal just how much an average Australian earns. Being “rich” might not see you living like a Kardashian but we need to acknowledge that earning more than 90% of people puts you in the top 10%, and that much of the tax system is geared to benefit you.

Asking who is rich is a question that can send shivers down the spines of politicians.

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