Senate debates

Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Questions without Notice

Fuel Excise

2:54 pm

Photo of Mathias CormannMathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Let me just say right up-front that under the coalition, over the forward estimates, taxes as a share of GDP will be lower than they would have been under Labor—so let's just get that one right out of the way—in particular because we got rid of your great, big, new carbon tax. The second point I would make is that the impact on households from our fuel excise indexation measure will be modest. By the end of the financial year—

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