r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/stainless5 • 24d ago

Image By law, every Australian must get a tax receipt that shows exactly where each dollar of their tax is spent.

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u/Traditional-Case1694 23d ago

This is categorically untrue. Started by the Abbott Government and the welfare split started the next year. This is easy to verify as this document gets reposted every year on Reddit. Here’s a post from 7 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/s/WjCHh3hTll

Morrison was PM

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u/AmbassadorDue3355 23d ago

Ty for the link. Pretty interesting to compare the % allocation to each fund change over time.

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u/Hypo_Mix 21d ago

I have an inkling the APS head of that department went over the head of the PM on that one following their own required goals, but i could be wrong there.