Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Small and Family Business) Share this | Hansard source

As Senator Smith knows, we're delivering on GST reform to the state of Western Australia. As we've noted, we've also delivered our tax cuts for small and medium businesses five years early. But, as I travel around Western Australia, I have the opportunity to visit businesses that are small craft brewers and distillers. They, of course, will benefit from the government's budget announcement to increase the alcoholic excise refund scheme cap to $100,000 per financial year from 1 July 2019. This additional tax relief to these businesses, on top of the tax cuts that they will now receive, fast-tracked through the Senate, will allow these businesses to compete on fairer terms with large beverage companies. Two of the businesses I visited in Western Australia, Wilson's brewery in Albany and Old Young's Distillery in the Swan Valley, have told me that they will benefit from measures that our government is putting in place. (Time expired)