Send Us Your Budget Questions
We want to hear from you. If you have a burning question about capital gains, NDIS, Medicare, or electric vehicle tax breaks, use the form below to send your question in. Our team will endeavour to get answers from the budget papers, Treasury officials, or the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, during the budget lock-up on Tuesday 12 May.
The federal budget is just around the corner, and although some information is already out there, you probably have some burning questions. We would like to answer them for you.
Jim Chalmers’ fifth budget will be his most challenging, not least because it will be delivered in the middle of the biggest global oil shock in history. Determined not to let the exigencies of today derail Labor’s plans for the future, the treasurer promises “the most ambitious” budget yet and has put intergenerational equity at the heart of its reform agenda. Speculation is rife about what all this means.
Changing the overly generous capital gains tax discount is firmly on the agenda, as is scaling back access to negative gearing for landlords. Will there be more cost of living support for households? Will it be enough? And if there is, will it add to inflation?
Chalmers has also promised fiscal rectitude. The government will “save more than we spend”, he says, and will not be splashing around any of the extra tax generated by high commodity prices. There is a lot going on, so we want to know what questions you want answered on budget day. We will choose some to be part of our reporting.
It could be one of the questions above, or maybe that time-honoured favourite: what is in it for me? Perhaps you want to know what the budget has done to help Australians doing it the toughest. Perhaps you are wondering whether our finances are sustainable, and whether you should be worried about the national debt. And what is the deal with Aukus?
Let us know in the form below. We will close it on Monday night (budget eve, for those who celebrate) and get answers up on our site from 7.30pm on Tuesday as Chalmers delivers his speech.
