Yes we remember how well Labor are organised, as Wayne Swan's MRRT always comes to mind!
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Australia's effort to levy extra taxes on mining companies has been an unmitigated debacle, capped by the passage early this morning of the Minerals Resource Rent Tax with a further last-minute compromise.
It is one of the great lose-lose outcomes - nobody wins.
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According to Brian Toohey in this morning's Financial Review, the cost to the budget of the extra superannuation tax deductions will be $4.2 billion in 2019-20. The total cost of the concessions connected to the MRRT will be $9.4 billion in that year - less than a third of which is paid for by the revenue to be collected from the MRRT.
In the 2012-13 financial year, in which the budget is supposed to return to surplus, the net cost of the MRRT package - revenue minus giveaways - is $1.7 billion. It is, in short, a joke. Everybody loses. It was an idea designed to help Australia deal with the terms of trade boom that has been bastardised by politics into a complicated impost on mining that achieves nothing at all and in fact worsens the position of everyone involved. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-23/kohler-mining-tax-everyone-a-loser/3688070
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But wait, wait, wait ...theres more!!
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. How could we forget. Anna should not have got his consultations to help!!
. How could we forget. Anna should not have got his consultations to help!!
