Backpacker tax set to become election issue

By Colin Bettles
Updated October 25 2018 - 12:52pm, first published May 1 2016 - 11:43am
Last year's federal budget papers and the proposal to raise $540 million by taxing working holiday visa holders at 32.5 per cent that industry groups now want softened.
Last year's federal budget papers and the proposal to raise $540 million by taxing working holiday visa holders at 32.5 per cent that industry groups now want softened.

FARMER organisations have pledged to come out swinging harder during the federal election campaign over the next two months due to the Coalition government’s failure to backflip on the backpacker tax increase.

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