Lower taxes, cheaper fuel and home-buying help are among the sugar hits on offer at this year’s election.
Labor has promised to reduce the lowest tax rate from 16% to 14% over two years while the Coalition is offering a 25c deduction of fuel tax for a year. Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton announced competing housing policies that share the same goal – to help first home buyers to get a foot on the property ladder – even if economists agree they would increase house prices.