Recessionberg’s budget surplus begins great unwind

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The federal budget has had a $2.3 billion hole punched in it by lower-than-expected company tax collections and Australians eager to get their hands on the first stage of the Morrison government’s personal income tax package.

Figures from the Finance Department covering the first two months of the 2019-20 financial year show company tax – which had been predicted to deliver $100.6 billion to Canberra’s coffers – down $2.1 billion on expectations.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.