Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

governments for over 26 years have used, as this letter says, tax office information about your income and then have written to people about how much money they owe. That was the established process which was used. The member for McMahon, in his 2010 press release, referenced what Labor had done in 2008 and 2009, with over three million assessments. How many of those assessments were done using this standardised process? The bottom line is this—and it may be inconvenient for those in the House—but these are the facts: for 26 years the use of averaged income from the tax office has been used to determine and crystallise debts.

This side didn't invent it. Indeed, there's no-one in this House that invented it. It was invented 26 years ago, but it's this government which has put a stop to it.

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