House debates

Monday, 26 March 2018

Questions without Notice

Taxation

2:05 pm

Photo of Malcolm TurnbullMalcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The honourable member knows very well why we are supporting reductions in company tax. The arguments were made by him very, very well here only a few years ago. In fact, he stood at the dispatch box as a minister in the Gillard government, and he said, 'Lower company taxes result in more investment, higher productivity and higher wages.' That's what he said as he made that case. And that was orthodox economics. It was absolutely accepted from both sides of politics that lower business taxes—

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