And another thing that's not in the Budget...

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Labour's Alan Whitehead argues the failure to provide clarity on the future of the Levy Control Framework remains one of the biggest oversights in last week's budget

I suppose it is the prerogative of the Opposition to bang on about what is not in the Budget as a response to what actually is: "If only the government had put X, Y, Z in the Budget/put this tax down/helped...

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