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Treasurer Jim Chalmers to temper great surplus expectations in pre-budget speech
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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3/13/2024
The federal treasurer is playing down expectations of major new spending ahead of the May budget, saying spending will be tighter and revenue upgrades smaller.
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The Treasurer, as we get ever closer to the May Budget, is seeking to limit expectations
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of major new funding in the Budget. This is because revenue upgrades will likely be much
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less than what was anticipated and recorded in the December MIEFO, the Mid-Year Economic
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and Fiscal Outlook. Treasurer Jim Chalmers is attributing that mostly to two things,
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one of them being a fall in iron ore prices and the other being a softening of the labour
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market, suggesting an end to tax receipts being significantly higher than forecast,
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something that's often referred to as 'rivers of gold' when we're talking about different
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resources and the incomes that are eventuated as a result of that. On iron ore, he'll reference
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a near 10% fall in the cost over the past week, and that's largely due to limited demand
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from China for iron ore, for steel production. On the side of the jobs market, more job losses
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and fewer jobs being created is likely to see reduced receipts from income tax as well
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as a heavier reliance on welfare payments. So they're the insights that we're getting
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so far ahead of this speech this afternoon from the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers.
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