Rural Australia and Tasmania to receive almost no benefit from stage-three tax cuts, analysis finds

‘It’s arse about face … giving nothing to the people who are screaming for assistance,’ Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie says

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Rural Australia and Tasmania will receive almost no benefit from the $250bn stage-three tax cuts, a new analysis has found, with Jacqui Lambie hardening her stance against them.

Research by the Australia Institute has concluded rural and regional communities will receive the least benefit from the controversial final stage of the Morrison government tax reforms, given their comparatively lower earnings.