Australian Senate Set to Pass Budget Income Tax Cuts

Australian Senate Set to Pass Budget Income Tax Cuts
Australian banknotes in Melbourne, on Nov. 7, 2017. Paul Crocker/AFP via Getty Images
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Labor senators look set to wave through the income tax cuts that were announced in this week’s federal budget, but not before having a dig at the way the government has presented the legislation.

Earlier, the omnibus bill—that lumps together the bringing forward of tax cuts that were scheduled for two years time but also a number of business tax breaks—breezed through the lower house.