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

Do not start on the Taxation Office, sunshine. The Taxation Office last year changed its computer programs and thousands of Australians were waiting not 30 days but six months to get their tax returns. So do not come to us with the sanctimonious rubbish of a new Assistant Treasurer, based on political advice from a half-empty officials’ box, and tell us about the performance of the Taxation Office. Fair dinkum, mate—you have got more front than Myer. I thought it was just the Prime Minister who had that sort of front. I would say to you that this is about transparency. If you are so worried about that particular provision then why is net debt published in the budget?

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