Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

by leave, I move to amend the motion in terms circulated in the chamber:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) a key role of the Senate is scrutiny of government revenue measures,

(ii) in April 2023, Senator Bragg requested the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) prepare a costing of Schedule 5 of the Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Measures No. 1) Bill 2023, including the methodology and assumptions used by the Treasury,

(iii) the methodology and assumptions used to cost government revenue measures should be easily disclosable to the PBO and made available to senators in a general anonymised form as part of costing requests, and

(iv) any sensitive documents or data provided to the PBO can be handled by that office under strict confidentiality provisions and there is no expectation that any confidential taxpayers' data would be disclosed to anyone outside the PBO;

(b) orders that there be laid on the table by the Minister representing the Treasurer, by no later than midday on 11 May 2023, the methodology and assumptions used to cost Schedule 5 of Treasury Laws Amendment (2023 Measures No. 1) Bill 2023.

I seek leave to make a one-minute statement.