**That’s an effective tax rate of 37.27% – not 47%.**
So are any Australian salary earners “working Monday, Tuesday, and half of Wednesday for yourself, and then Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for the government”?.
The simple answer? No.”
ElectronicOvens on
If you either deliberately or through other reasons don’t understand our tax system then the answer will suprise you
GregLocock on
Headline misstates what Minns said. If you add the 37% OP worked out and the GST and excise and all the rest then you probably hit 50%. It’s not as if pollies never use hyperbole.
Scrambledsilence on
It’s weird that the main point was about bracket creep which was mentioned once in the article then never addressed again.
7h3_man on
Well according to my pay cheques I work half a day to pay the tax so no, there, saved you a read
patslogcabindigest on
Chris Minns has the income tax understanding of a donut. Effective tax rate at 200k per year is about 30%.
I’m sick and tired of people playing into this stupidity that because you are in the top bracket you are paying that rate on all your income. This is civic incompetence and it’s the media’s job to embarrass public officials who mess this up.
Ovknows on
Well yes for the amount taxed at the highest rate or even the second highest rate. Brackets need to move with potentially a new bracket at 350ish
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For Minns specifically:
“Let’s use an example. The New South Wales Premier Chris Minns’s salary from July 1, 2025, was [$348,301 (plus expenses)](https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/Documents/LA%20Members%20Salaries%20%26%20Allowances%20July%202025.pdf).
Minns *only* has to pay the highest 47% tax rate (including the Medicare levy) on what he earns from $190,001 up: less than half of his total salary.
According to the federal government’s [Moneysmart income tax calculator](https://moneysmart.gov.au/work-and-tax/income-tax-calculator), someone with a $348,301 salary in 2025-26 would have an after-tax income of $218,462.
**That’s an effective tax rate of 37.27% – not 47%.**
So are any Australian salary earners “working Monday, Tuesday, and half of Wednesday for yourself, and then Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday for the government”?.
The simple answer? No.”
If you either deliberately or through other reasons don’t understand our tax system then the answer will suprise you
Headline misstates what Minns said. If you add the 37% OP worked out and the GST and excise and all the rest then you probably hit 50%. It’s not as if pollies never use hyperbole.
It’s weird that the main point was about bracket creep which was mentioned once in the article then never addressed again.
Well according to my pay cheques I work half a day to pay the tax so no, there, saved you a read
Chris Minns has the income tax understanding of a donut. Effective tax rate at 200k per year is about 30%.
I’m sick and tired of people playing into this stupidity that because you are in the top bracket you are paying that rate on all your income. This is civic incompetence and it’s the media’s job to embarrass public officials who mess this up.
Well yes for the amount taxed at the highest rate or even the second highest rate. Brackets need to move with potentially a new bracket at 350ish