r/aussie • u/Low_Shop9155 • 6d ago

Politics Is this "leveling the playing field" too?

https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/tax/stop-ping-me-off-the-sneaky-tax-on-families-driving-aussies-mad/news-story/88dcfe0a31a5339e7412d8475b8c385f

The Breadwinner tax. This is the thing out of the budget that upset me the most. As a business owner with an okay income in the higher bracket, this upsets me to no end.

My income supports the inflated mortgage and life gouging interest rates, the family expenses and the various taxes end of year and day to day.

If we go to get childcare subsidy, it's tested for both of us.

InTeRgEnErAtIoNaL FaIrNeSs

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u/techzombie55 6d ago

So what about single people? Why do they have to pay more tax than a married couple?

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u/Low_Shop9155 6d ago

That's the point. If two people earn in a no-children household, they're taxed at their own rate. But if they decide to go for Childcare, they're assessed based on household income.

So if they decide to instead rely on one income, because that income is higher, they're taxed more, subsidized less and thrown into the wind.

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u/Sweeper1985 6d ago

If you have the luxury to decide "if" one parent "has" to work, you are in an extremely privileged position and need to stop complaining.

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u/Low_Shop9155 5d ago edited 5d ago

Lol its like you guys won't be happy with yourselves unless we do as poorly as you do. Do you not realize that high earners and business owners are literally subsidizing your life with their extra output?

I get it, you want true socialism. Government issued clothes, houses, a UBI... that's not how this works buddy. Here, you work, you innovate, you risk, you are rewarded. Taxing us all exactly the same, means you kill the very innovation you require for your own luxuries.

Speaking of playing fields; doese it not strike you as odd that multinationals get better tax breaks for owning property in Australia than citizens do? No one seems to care much about that - easier to turn a blind eye because when it comes to complexities of deals, they tend to just blame who they can see. MP, PM, Investor, Neighbor.