House debates

Monday, 19 October 2015

Bills

Tax Laws Amendment (Combating Multinational Tax Avoidance) Bill 2015; Second Reading

6:23 pm

Photo of Nick ChampionNick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is a wonderful place to go to. It was, of course, a noted military base during the Second World War, as I know the member for Batman would be very, very interested to hear. My honourable friend opposite, the member for Riverina, says that Fiona was a very lucky woman to marry me there in Gibraltar.

The interesting thing about Gibraltar is that it has been accused of being a tax haven, and one of the election policies that the Labour Party in Britain had was to force Britain's overseas territories, such as Gibraltar, to declare, for transparency purposes, all of the companies that are listed there as shell companies for taxation purposes. It is interesting that a place as lovely as Gibraltar—and I cannot recommend it enough both as a place to get married and also a place to visit—

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