Labour reduced tax more than once.
Multiple budgets across the legislature implemented threshold widening, reduced part-time and overtime tax rates, and the Budget 2026 'three-year track to zero income tax for middle-class parents'. The narrow claim is unambiguous.
Multiple budgets across the legislature implemented threshold widening, reduced part-time and overtime tax rates, and the Budget 2026 'three-year track to zero income tax for middle-class parents'. The narrow claim is unambiguous.
Multiple budgets across the legislature have cut tax. The 2022 manifesto threshold widening was rolled in across budgets 2023-2025; the part-time tax rate was cut from 15% to 10%; overtime tax for non-managerial earners under €20K was reduced; and Budget 2026 introduced the three-year track to zero income tax for middle-class parents earning under €30,000 with two or more children. The narrow claim that Labour cut tax more than once is unambiguous. True.
Did Labour really cut tax more than once
Camilleri's claim is narrow and well-supported by the budget record.
What Labour actually cut, year by year
The 2022 manifesto's tax-threshold widening (single tax-free €9,100 → €10,800; married €12,700 → €14,400; parental €10,500 → €12,200) was rolled in across budgets 2023-2025. The part-time tax rate was cut from 15% to 10%. Overtime tax for non-managerial earners under €20K was reduced. Each budget over the legislature included tax-cut lines.
Budget 2026 then introduced the headline measure: a three-year track to zero income tax for middle-class parents earning up to €30,000 with two or more children, with €160 million allocated to parental tax cuts and an average projected saving of €2,400 over three years.
So is the claim accurate?
Yes, comfortably. Tax has been cut multiple times across this legislature. Whether the cumulative cut exceeded the 2022 manifesto's promise is a more granular question covered in our companion fact-check (A10).
Verdict: True.