“Whenever [Treasurer Josh] Frydenberg bangs on about tax, remember that the two highest taxing governments of the last thirty years have both been Liberal-National governments, including his.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Dr Chalmers's claim is a fair call. Although there have been just two periods each of Labor and Coalition governments in the last 30 years, the Commonwealth tax take was on average higher under the Coalition during that time. Tax revenue as a share of the economy was highest under prime minister John Howard. Next was the current Coalition government, elected in 2013, followed by the Labor government of Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, then that of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. However, direct comp...
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In short
Jim Chalmers (Shadow Treasurer) made this claim around 22 November 2021. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 13 December 2021, 21 days later. Its rating was “Fair call”.
Jim Chalmers has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
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