The debate over the “47 per cent” of American adults who Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says don’t pay income tax caused a firestorm across the US this week.
An analysis by The Weekend Financial Review has found that the proportion of Australian adults who don’t pay tax is almost as high, at 45 per cent.
But like the figure cited by Mr Romney, that number is full of caveats and exceptions rather than evidence that half the population are bludgers.
Read more tax data analysis at The Australian Financial Review.