Senate debates

Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Tax Laws Amendment (Luxury Car Tax) Bill 2008; a New Tax System (Luxury Car Tax Imposition — General) Amendment Bill 2008; a New Tax System (Luxury Car Tax Imposition — Customs) Amendment Bill 2008; a New Tax System (Luxury Car Tax Imposition — Excise) Amendment Bill 2008

In Committee

8:48 pm

Photo of Steve FieldingSteve Fielding (Victoria, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

I do not understand you. You said this tax impacts those people from there. There is the other one about why farmers are limited to one vehicle. Over 10 years, they can get 10 vehicles. Then you look at some other issues about how it is too complex and not easy to do. It is a simple matter, at this stage, of claiming a refund. I do not think it is going to take that long to get the refund back. Rather than looking for the negatives of this amendment and looking for ways to shoot it down, you should be supporting the amendment. As I said before, there may be many other cases that you could bring forward, but if you bring them all up then you are exempting everybody. I do not think that that is the spirit of the Senate, given that in this place both sides of parliament have supported the idea that there be a luxury car tax. Family First have said that it should not apply to farmers and tourism operators and have gone about doing that.

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