Labor's trust tax crackdown to hit 200,000 small businesses
About 200,000 of the 315,000 trusts to be whacked with a new tax are related to small businesses.
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Mark Kenny
Mark Kenny is the national affairs editor for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House
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