Labor refuse to sign off Coalition's $158 billion tax package

Labor leader Anthony Albanese and home affairs minister Peter Dutton have clashed over the Coalition's $158 billion tax package.

Dutton told Today the Australia public voted for the Coalition’s tax reform agenda at the recent federal election and urged Albanese to pass the bill.

“We’re not doing deals because Labor is proposing to effectively take money out of people’s pockets and we want the tax cuts to go through,” he told Today.

“People need additional support for their family. They have increasing rents, increasing electricity costs, gas costs, petrol and rego. People want to make decision about their future.

“We hope the Labor party can step up and find common sense.”

Dutton also referred to comments made by Labor MP Peter Khalil on Thursday, when he urged Albanese to pass the three-stage, 10-year package so it can be taken off the agenda.

“Internally they are trying to tear him apart,” he said.

“No one had heard of Peter Khalil, but now he seems to be only voice of reason in Labor Party.”

The opposition has requested information about how much of the tax package will benefit those earning more than $180,000.

But Treasurer Josh Frydenberg this week rejected a request to provide the information, telling his Labor counterpart Jim Chalmers there was enough detail in the latest budget papers.

Albanese said Labor would require this information to be presented before it would agree.

“There will be another election before stages two and three come in. It’s is just a triumph of hope over economic reality for Peter to be able to say they know what the economy will look like in 2025,” he said.

“They don’t have a blank cheque and they won’t say what the impact will be on various income groups of these proposed changes. They also won’t say what cuts they will make.

“If you’re reducing revenue you also have to reduce expenditure. We want to know what their plans are and what the proposed full deal is, not just half it.”

The government will need four crossbenchers to support the three-stage tax package if Labor doesn't back it, otherwise it won't make it through the Senate when parliament resumes in less than a fortnight.