Economists say trusts help people pay less tax, but stopping that could be difficult

Taxation system portrayed as enabling harmful inequities

Framing tax trusts as tools for the wealthy to exploit loopholes, creating unfair outcomes; language like 'breakfast buffet' and 'washing machine' evokes excess and manipulation

"Trusts give wealthy families and business owners a "breakfast buffet" of options to reduce their taxes"

Trust structures framed as enabling corrupt-like tax avoidance

Describing complex trust arrangements as allowing families to 'save hundreds of thousands of dollars' through mechanisms likened to a 'washing machine' implies systemic abuse

"More complicated structures involving holding companies and rules that allow people to move income around between different tax years can allow people to save hundreds of thousands of dollars, in what some economists call "a washing machine""

Labor Party's tax policy framed as flawed and previously failed

Characterising Labor’s trust tax proposal as a 'partial return to Labor's failed 2019 tax policy agenda' implies past failure undermines current legitimacy

"marking a partial return to Labor's failed 2019 tax policy agenda"