Q. The Government’s budget proposes to provide a tax cut of $530 for middle and lower income earners from next year, and then in seven years change the tax rates so that workers earning between $40,000 and $200,000 pay the same rate of tax. Labor proposes to provide a larger tax cut of $928 for middle and lower income earners, and ask those in the top tax bracket to pay a little more to help reduce the deficit. Which of these proposals do you prefer?
| Total | Vote Labor | Vote Lib/Nat | Vote Greens | Vote other | May 2018 | |||
| The Government proposal | 29% | 12% | 53% | 18% | 27% | 33% | ||
| The Labor proposal | 50% | 76% | 30% | 65% | 52% | 45% | ||
| Don’t know | 21% | 12% | 17% | 17% | 21% | 22% |
50% prefer the Labor tax plan and 33% the Government’s plan.
All income groups strongly favour the Labor plan. Even those earning more than $2,000 pw favour then Labor plan 50% to 36%.
Since this question was asked last month there has been a considerable shift in favour of the Labor plan.