Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

I do not believe that that is an accurate representation of my comments with respect to employee share ownership schemes. I think if the member re-examines the transcript then he will see that my reference does indicate that there has been a significant problem in this area with respect to tax avoidance but I do not think it is fair to say that my comments could be characterised as meaning that all employee share ownership schemes have been the subject of tax avoidance problems.

Proposed expenditure agreed to.

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Proposed expenditure, $4,096,666,000

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