Assistant Climate Change Minister and Energy Minister Jenny McAllister says the government’s superannuation tax increase is a “modest change”.
“The truth is, this is a modest change.
It will affect a very small group of superannuants, and even those superannuants will receive tax concessions, just not as generous as the ones they receive at the moment,” she told Sky News Australia.
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