Lower tax bill

We should also abolish the passenger movement charge, which is one of the most expensive departure taxes in the world.  It has no relation to the costs of government customs operations and applies as much to business people and foreign tourists as it does to Australians holidaying in Bali or across the ditch.

Each of these tax cuts is included in the Lower Tax Bill 2018 I introduced to the Senate last week.  The bill is not likely to pass in the couple of weeks of parliamentary sittings before the next election but, for each tax cut detailed in the bill, it allows us to ask the major parties: why not?  Why should drinkers pay so much tax?  And smokers? And tourists?  And motorists? And wage earners? And shoppers? In other words, most of us.

I have arranged for the Senate Economics Committee to hold an inquiry into the Lower Tax Bill 2018 over the final months of this parliamentary term.  Perhaps the major parties will explain to us in submissions to this inquiry why Australians from all walks of life need to pay as much tax as they are paying now.  

But I’m not holding my breath for such an explanation.  You can’t justify the unjustifiable.