WA Labor's Debt Dodging Strategy?

Written on the 15 February 2017

WA Labor's Debt Dodging Strategy? WA industry is concerned a Labor Government would slug business with a tax hike to fund debt repair measures and has called on WA Labor to reveal more details about its "Debt Reduction Strategy".

"The business community is concerned that Ben Wyatt's Debt Reduction Strategy is in fact a Debt Dodging Strategy that will see Labor try to shift the burden of repaying government debt on to business in the form of higher taxes or charges for the private sector," Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI) Chief Economist Rick Newnham said.

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Source:  CCIWA


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