Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Treasurer, Senator Wong. Why will details of the carbon tax revenue and related spending estimates from 1 July 2012 onwards not be included in the next budget when $12 billion in mining tax revenue and related spending estimates from the underdeveloped and now disbanded resource super profits tax—to take effect on the same day, 1 July 2012—were already included in last year’s budget? Is it because the government has done even less homework on the carbon tax than it had done on the mining tax before announcing it, or is it because the government has something to hide?