Page 5164 - Week 12 - Thursday, 27 October 2011
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This government, some time ago, under my watch as Treasurer, instigated the tax review specifically to look at the issues of equity around our own revenue lines. That review will report, and it will provide us with the latest information about the fairness and equity of all of our own revenue lines. And that will inform future government decision making.
MR SPEAKER: A supplementary, Mr Coe.
MR COE: Chief Minister, will the government get rid of this tax?
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Gentlemen!
MR COE: If not, why not?
MS GALLAGHER: I did not hear the question.
MR SPEAKER: Gentlemen, we could not hear Mr Coe’s question. Mr Coe, could you repeat it, thank you?
MR COE: Sure, Mr Speaker. Chief Minister, will the government get rid of this tax and, if not, why not?
MS GALLAGHER: The government, as I said—and I have probably answered this in my previous question—looks at all of our revenue lines every year as we formulate our budget. These are considerations that the government takes carefully and with informed analysis. The tax reviews, specifically in formulating the next budget, will provide us with the latest information we have around all of our revenue lines. We are not just going to come out and make a one-off statement about one revenue line just to get a headline. We actually are doing the work. It is careful work. It needs to be informed and it will be informed in terms of our own budget decisions for next year and the outyears.
MR HARGREAVES: A supplementary, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mr Hargreaves.
MR HARGREAVES: Chief Minister, has the opposition offered you any expenditure offsets to counter their request for taxation reductions?
Mrs Dunne: Mr Speaker, on a point of order, could I ask you to rule on relevance. On a number of occasions you have ruled that the views of the opposition are not the responsibility of a minister.
MR SPEAKER: I think that question is going to be out of order today on the grounds that the Chief Minister is not responsible for the opposition.
MR HANSON: Supplementary, Mr Speaker.
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