Albanese ‘dodging questions’ about stage three tax cuts

Shadow Housing Minister Michael Sukkar says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is being “tricky” when it comes to stage three tax cuts. Mr Albanese on Wednesday reaffirmed the government's commitment to allow the already legislated stage three tax cuts to proceed unchanged, despite calls to water down reforms. The already legislated changes are set to kick in on July 1, with 94 per cent of Australian taxpayers to face a maximum marginal tax rate of 30 per cent or less. Mr Sukkar claimed that the Prime Minster is “squirming his way through” answering questions on stage three tax cuts. “He’s been around the last week, and never has the prime minster fronted the cameras so often and yet said so little,” Mr Sukkar told Sky News contributor Steve Price. “He’s got nothing to say; he’s got no plan for the cost of living crisis that his government is responsible for, which begs the question, why on earth has he been out there if he’s got nothing to say and no relief to provide Australians. “All he can do is dodge and weave questions that are very straightforward, which are. Are you going to keep the tax cuts that the coalition delivered Australians, and there should be very unequivocal yes from him … but we don’t get that we get this squirming dodging constantly, and I think Australians are sick of that.”