House debates Questions without Notice

Budget

Monday, 24 May 2010 House of Representatives

Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition

2:19 pm

My question is again to the Prime Minister. Yesterday the Treasurer and the Deputy Prime Minister publicly claimed that the Australian resources sector pays only 13 to 17 per cent in tax, based on the University of North Carolina student research paper that was completed over a year ago which does not specifically focus on the Australian resource sector, does not include royalty payments and lumps data from New Zealand in with that from Australia. I ask the Prime Minister: to prevent further misinformation, will the government now publicly release all Treasury and tax office modelling in relation to the great big new tax on mining?

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