Shadow treasurer and the reason Jim Chalmers gets up in the morning, Angus Taylor, is very, very upset at Chalmers using Treasury to rubbish the Coalition’s Snitty and Chips tax write off plan.

He told Sky News:

This is an egregious politicisation of the public service to get the Treasury to do this analysis. It is absolutely at odds, in our view, with the Australian Public Service Code of Conduct. I’ll be writing to Stephen Kennedy today, the Secretary of Treasury, asking for a full explanation as to why he has done this. And it is clear that Labor’s 36,000 additional public servants is at least partly about the politicisation of the public service and using them to attack, in pure political terms, the opposition. This is not what a public service is for. But this is how the public service is being used by a bad Labor government that is more focused on politics than it is on beating the cost of living crisis, the standard of living crisis that has been engineered by this Treasurer who is out of his depth and out of touch. This is a modest tax cut for small businesses where we’re seeing record levels of insolvencies. We have a Treasurer here who has never run a business and he doesn’t want to see any businesses existing in this country.