During the time in question, Albanese had the opportunity to bake a $ 20,000 tax reduction of the small and medium -sized business coalition to entertain guests.
As the season of the fake election warms up, the Albanese government sinks his teeth on the first day of the Albanese to other policies over many lunch rooms than the board of directors.
The Labor Party has taken all opportunities to change the question time into a roasting session to reduce the question time into a roasting session to reduce the tax time of the opposition leader, Peter Daton, for small and medium -sized businesses engaged in lunch and entertainment.
Initially, Daton, supported by Shadow Accounting Angus Taylor Angus Taylor and Deputy Leader Susan Ray, tried to approach the government about crisis of living expenses.
However, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Finance Secretary Gym Charmers returned the debate to the small business tax deduction in the Union. This is a policy that claims that the government offers “free lunch” for taxpayers.
Tax -exempt lunch or budget blowing off?
On February 2, Dutton sold his policy and provided up to $ 20,000 tax deductions for small and medium -sized businesses for work -related meals and entertainment.
Duton said, “Help the establishment and provide rewards to employees,” as a victory for both companies and employees. What he did not provide was the cost estimate.
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Albanese did not waste the time to distort the plan.
“The only policy they proposed is that all taxpayers provide free lunch,” he said. The Prime Minister said, “I am thinking in the lunch box,” rather than thinking from the box.
Accounting Charmers was as painful, and opposition parties argued that “workers wages are low, boss lunch is long, and taxpayers make bills.”
He stated that the proposal was “the only policy agreed at the end of a very long lunch.”
Opposition parties rely on the true cost of the plan, but the Labor Party claims that the Ministry of Finance has fixed $ 1.6 billion per year for tax revenue.
Dutton’s camp has objection to the numbers, and Taylor claims an independent budget bureau, and the cost is “less than $ 250 million.”
“Currently, Australia is collected only $ 4.1 billion on Fringe Benefits. Only $ 2 billion of dollars and entertainment. (Labor) costs do not seem to be based on reality.”
The battle of political food will intensify
Taylor criticized the Ministry of Finance and called the cost estimation “severe politics of public services.”
He accused him of using bureaucrats as an attack dog and swore to write a letter to Steven Kennedy to explain.
Charmers rejected Taylor, saying that he had “lost conspiracy” and claimed as “no hinge.”
Duton also emphasized existing tax rules that aimed at Albanese and ensure large companies like Canantas so that they could claim luxurious executive rooms as deductions.
“Lunch that the Prime Minister or accounting could attend or probably have the lunch.”
Since then, the Alliance is fine -tuned, clarifying that golf days and other leisure activities are not so while “food and entertainment” are covered.
This plan is scheduled to be executed for two years, exempt from the benefit tax, which is attractive for hospitality business.
Dutton claims that this policy “helps a company to survive” under the economic pressure of workers, claiming that simplifying tax deductions will reduce deficit and support the struggling sector. I am.
However, since the government enjoys all the opportunities to draw policies as a budget, Dutton’s tax -exempt lunch seems to be a hot potato in election discussions.
