Treasurer cited News Corp stories claiming new modelling showed policies would raise tax on households by over $100bnThe Parliamentary Budget Office has rejected reports it has produced new modelling of Labor’s tax policies, seriously undermining the latest effort from Scott Morrison to discredit the opposition. Labor tries to force hundreds of Australian companies to publish secret tax data Read moreBut Jenny Wilkinson, the parliamentary budget officer, has dismissed the suggestion that the PBO was involved in producing Morrison’s “new modelling”. “References in the media this morning to modelling being released today by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) are incorrect,” she said in a statement. Morrison later admitted on Sky News that the new figures were not from new PBO modelling but were an extrapolation from some of the PBO’s modelling from last year. “Not one number is correct, nor is it from the PBO, and Labor condemns the blatant politicisation of the independent Parliamentary Budget Office,” Bowen said.

Source: The Guardian August 14, 2017 08:15 UTC