Page 194 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 17 February 1993
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Mr Lamont, you will see that the Commissioner for ACT Revenue, in certain respects, has more power than the Federal Tax Commissioner. That is also a fact, Mr Lamont. That is what it is all about, Mr Lamont. There is no way known that the ACT Revenue Office is going to relinquish its power. The Liberal Party is saying that the Government should put its money where its mouth is. It should have the guts to tell the people of the ACT who is exempted and who is not - not the Commissioner for Revenue.
Madam Speaker, let me sum up. Some of us are getting hot under the collar. In about three months' time we will not need all this mishmash of legislation which is so confusing, even to the solicitors in this town and especially the people in the building industry. We will make all this irrelevant, because there will be no payroll tax in three months' time. There will be no complicated sets of legislation for people to read through and for solicitors to earn a living from, because Dr Hewson, when elected, will abolish it all, much to the betterment of business in this country. The number of unemployed, which is currently over one million because of Labor Party policies, will be reduced by at least 200,000, in the words of the current Prime Minister, who will be a feather duster by the time we talk about the next Bill.
For Mr Lamont and for the Government to pre-empt future debate on a future Bill in this Assembly, to me, goes to show what this Government thinks of the processes in this house. For all those reasons, Madam Speaker, the only sensible thing to do is to realise that you can show the business community in this town a sign that you really mean it when you say that you rely on them for future employment and accept this amendment.
Question put:
That the amendment (Mr De Domenico's) be agreed to.
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 5 NOES, 9
Mrs Carnell Mr Berry
Mr De Domenico Mr Connolly
Mr Humphries Ms Follett
Mr Kaine Mrs Grassby
Mr Westende Mr Lamont
Ms McRae
Mr Moore
Ms Szuty
Mr Wood
Question so resolved in the negative.
Clause agreed to.
Title agreed to.
Bill agreed to.
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