House debates

Thursday, 14 March 2013

Bills

Tax Laws Amendment (Countering Tax Avoidance and Multinational Profit Shifting) Bill 2013; Second Reading

1:39 pm

Photo of Ed HusicEd Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I actually think my colleagues the member for Fraser and the member for Throsby are being too hard, because they need to appreciate that those opposite do have consistency. When it comes to issues of revenue and whether or not the taxation base of this country is being eroded, you have to know that they will not do anything about it. It has been there for decades. They had their little game where they were trying to track down the BLF. Malcolm Fraser and then Treasurer John Howard were in there, boots and all, after the BLF. That uncovered all these bottom-of-the-harbour taxation schemes.

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