Tony Smith (Casey, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Fortuitously—he is right. What I would like to do is take him back to the decision on budget night. I accept the minister’s valid point that the costings are done by Treasury, sometimes with tax office advice. I would like to ask the minister whether the Treasury or the tax office in fact considered in their calculations how many employees would withdraw from employee share ownership plans, whether they gave the minister any of that advice or whether they simply did not consider that there would be any behavioural effect with respect to the budget decision.

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