Bruce Billson (Dunkley, Liberal Party, Minister for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the wonderful member for Lindsay; what a great job she is doing representing the small businesses in her community. And it is not surprising; like this side of the House, small business runs through her veins. She knows that excessive compliance burden and red tape costs land most heavily on the smaller enterprises. That is why we made the commitment to cut $1 billion worth of red tape. But not only have we done what we said we were going to do; we have doubled the amount of red tape and compliance cost savings—more than 400 separate measures, $2.1 billion worth of compliance tax savings right across the role of government and the work of our agencies. The demands government makes on small business, the one-stop shop streamlining so we can get those projects and opportunities more in reach of small businesses.

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