The Greens are continuing discussions with the government on its tax package.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are pleased that Labor will amend the sweeping ministerial powers after we raised them in discussions,\u201d Greens Economic Justice spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said.
\u201cBut the absurdly generous grandfathering provisions make this legislation a major missed opportunity.\u201d
\u201cThere is $33 billion a year just in negative gearing handouts for people with two or more properties – this is money that could directly fund cost of living relief for renters and mortgage holders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe are yet to see Labor\u2019s amendments, but we are continuing discussions and look forward to seeing them soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDespite the changes, Labor\u2019s lack of ambition means the housing crisis will remain more harmful and long lasting than it needs to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Greens are continuing discussions with the government on its tax package. \u201cWe are pleased that Labor will amend the sweeping ministerial powers after we raised them in discussions,\u201d Greens Economic Justice spokesperson Senator Nick McKim said. \u201cBut the absurdly generous grandfathering provisions make this legislation a major missed opportunity.\u201d \u201cThere is $33 billion a … Continue reading “Changes to tax reform legislation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39576,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39575\/revisions\/39576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}