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Backpacker tax up in the air as Senate, House conlfict

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Farmers and M-Ps on both sides of politics are calling for an urgent resolution to a stalemate on the proposed backpacker tax. Image: Jacqui Lambie talks outside Parliament House (AAP)


The level of tax now remains uncertain after parliament's lower house rejected a Senate-backed 10.5 per cent tax rate.

 

 

 

 


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