Australians are paying 30 per cent more tax compared to a decade ago 

Australians pay an average of 30 per cent more income tax than they did a decade ago, and the news sparked outrage among workers.

The shocking revelation comes after The Australia analyzed budget figures that showed income tax payments had risen from $6,556 in 2013-2014 to an expected $8,617 in 2023-24.

Workers are forced to pay more to fund higher government spending on public services like Medicare.

Some residents were outraged and blamed Labor for the increase, even though most of the past decade has been governed by the Coalition.

Leading the chorus, Ben Fordham of 2GB said life had become increasingly difficult for workers.

“We are being crushed by the tax. When the budget comes out, working Australians are ignored,” he said on Tuesday.

He said treasurer Jim Chalmers “seems to think the only people who are struggling are the welfare recipients, and he’s wrong.”

Fordham read an email from a single mother who said she is not receiving benefits and is struggling to make ends meet.

She explained that she had two children and only had $24,000 a year to live on after paying taxes and rent.

The small amount means the family can spend just $459 a week on food, bills, clothing, entertainment and other necessary support for the children.

“You have to admire her attitude. And I don’t know how she pulls it off, but these are the people Jim Chalmers forgot in his budget,” Fordham said.

‘They are the people working hard to keep Australia moving and they are the forgotten Aussies.

The lifters, not the leaners. The workers, the taxpayers and the working class. And when it comes to the cost of living, they feel invisible.”

While the massive 30 per cent rise in income taxes over the past decade has mostly happened under Liberal Prime Ministers Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison, some online commentators were quick to blame Labour.

“Labour lacks the courage or the objectivity to enact real tax reform,” one wrote.

Howard, Costello and Reith knew their GST reform agenda in detail and convinced just enough voters to pass it.

“Albo and Chambers just aren’t that involved. They like clichés, not objective tax reform agendas!”

But others said there was enough guilt to share.

‘Both political shades preach a bigger government and therefore more taxes. They’ve been doing that for years,” they said.

“They need to understand that not everyone can be a ‘civil servant’. The sheep are waking up and no longer want to be smothered by the government.’

Gareth Aird, Commonwealth Bank’s head of economics, explained that bracket creep’s so-called “hidden tax increase” is responsible for much of the increase.

“We all pay more taxes because of bracket creep,” he said.

The hidden tax increase refers to when a person gets an increase and therefore has to pay a higher tax rate.

“If you don’t give tax cuts in line with CPI (consumer price index) or WPI (wage price index), then you have people moving into higher tax brackets incrementally,” Aird said. The Australian.

He said tax as a share of household income has risen from a low of 12 percent around 2010 to more than 16 percent at the end of last year.

He said it was at the highest level since 1999, before the income tax exemption associated with the introduction of the GST.

Australia’s national debt is expected to reach $15,574 per person by June 2024, nearly doubling from $8,500 a decade earlier.

Net interest payments on debt per person will fall from $440 in 2013-2014 to $363 in 2023-24, budget papers show.

The decrease is due to the fact that interest rates were very low for a long time and rose sharply again last year.

The Reserve Bank of Australia raised interest rates by a further 0.25 percentage point in early May, bringing the cash rate to an 11-year high of 3.85 percent.

According to the Parliamentary Budget Office, workers will contribute $319 billion — 52 percent — to the estimated total $616 billion in federal tax revenue in 2023-24, compared to just 21 percent coming from corporate taxes.

Opposition leader Peter Dutton said on Monday that the Labor budget, announced last week, did nothing to ease pressure on middle income earners.

While the budget allocated nearly $14 billion in aid to poorer households, there was no relief for middle-income earners, who pay a large portion of the national tax, Dutton said.

However, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese disagreed, saying the budget was intended to “take pressure off families and not put pressure on inflation.”

“It was aimed squarely at Central Australia,” he said.

‘Nothing says Central Australia is making it cheaper to see a doctor… Nothing says Central Australia is better at making childcare cheaper – that will happen on 1 July.’

“And there’s nothing like Central Australia to depress inflation by … producing the first (fiscal) surplus forecast in 15 years.”

Mr Albanese and Dr Chalmers have both used the phrase ‘Central Australia’ regularly since the budget was announced.

Dr. Chalmers, along with others in the Albanian government, has repeatedly said that Labour’s position has “not changed” regarding the third phase of tax cuts, which will take effect on 1 July 2024, providing tax relief to high and middle income earners.

On Monday he said: ‘We want people to be paid fairly for their efforts; that starts with wages, and if the budget can afford to return some creeps, that’s a worthy and legitimate endeavor too.’

Economist Saul Eslake said phase three tax cuts are more affordable now that a budget surplus is expected, warning against that ‘if nothing is done about the tax system, we will become increasingly dependent on personal income tax’.