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Tuesday Column: Labor's home saving scheme is now only half a dud

Peter Martin - May 20, 2008 - 11:25am

Wayne Swan said his Budget would keep all of Labor’s election promises.

But it didn’t really.

Some of them were too awful to implement in full.

Take Wayne Swan’s promised ‘Low Tax First Home Owner Savings Accounts’.

His pre-election sales pitch promised that “savers will be eligible for a low tax rate of 15 per cent on the first $5000 of income they deposit in their account each year rather