Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the $38 million of taxpayer ads that deliberately mislead Australians into believing that ‘The Australian people only receive royalties and resource charges from mining companies’. Why does the government deliberately exclude from the ads company tax paid by mining companies to the federal government? Is it because a decade ago only five per cent of all company tax paid to the government came from the mining industry, whereas last year an estimated 24 per cent of all company tax came from the mining industry?

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