CANBERRA, ACT, Aug. 21 -- The Treasurer of Australia issued the following transcript:
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Subjects: Economic Reform Roundtable, tax, road user charge
Sarah Ferguson:
Jim Chalmers, welcome to 7.30.
Jim Chalmers:
Thanks Sarah, always happy to be the warm‑up act for Jacob Greber.
Ferguson:
Well, thank you for that. Now obviously there's a lot to get through, but let me start with tax. You've acknowledged the tax system is fundamentally unfair to younger workers compared to older Australians. How do you plan now to fix it?
Chalmers:
I think one of the clear areas of consensus out of the Economic Reform Roundtable is that when we look to reform the tax system, one of the most important objectives is to make it fairer in intergen...