High-income earners will pay more tax until 2017

By James Massola
Updated April 23 2018 - 10:47pm, first published May 14 2014 - 3:00am

About 400,000 taxpayers earning more than $180,000 will pay an extra 2 per cent tax as the government breaks a pre-election promise not to raise taxes, with the introduction of a ''temporary budget repair levy'' for three years.

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