THE KEY FEDERAL BUDGET POINTS
* Forecast cash surplus of $21.7 billion.
* Cost ‘savings’ of $33 billion over four years.
* $41 billion invested in three new future funds to pay for infrastructure, education and health.
* Income tax cuts totalling $47 billion.
* Medicare levy surcharge threshold up from $50,000 to $100,000 for singles, from $100,000 to $150,000 for couples.
* Family tax benefit to be means-tested.
* Baby bonus to rise to $5000 from July 2008, to be means-tested from January 2009.
* Child care tax rebate to rise from 30 per cent to 50 per cent, to be paid quarterly.
* Fringe benefits tax crackdown.
* Tax rates increased on luxury cars.
* Labor’s ‘education revolution’ to cost an extra $5.9
billion over five years.
* 50 per cent tax refund on education expenses for school students.
* $2.2 billion housing affordability package.
* Extra $3.2 billion over five years for public health.
* $2.3 billion over five years to cut greenhouse gas emissions.