Page 521 - Week 02 - Thursday, 25 February 1993
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Parking Infringements - Penalties
MR STEVENSON: My question is to Mr Connolly. Since the introduction of vehicle registration and licence cancellation for non-payment of parking fines, how many vehicle registrations and drivers licences have been cancelled? Also, of those cancelled, how many vehicle registrations and drivers licences have been renewed or, conversely, not been renewed?
MR CONNOLLY: That is a very detailed question which I suspect Mr Stevenson probably did ask my office about some weeks ago. I will undertake to get the full detailed answer to him very swiftly.
Goods and Services Tax - Racing Industry
MRS GRASSBY: My question is to the Deputy Chief Minister in his capacity of Minister for Sport. For those of us who were up late last night watching a television program about the GST which was very interesting, can I ask the Minister to inform the Assembly exactly how the GST will have an impact on the racing industry?
Mr Kaine: From your description, I thought he would have been watching the soccer.
MR BERRY: It is all eating into your time. We have heard, on countless occasions, how this GST is not going to hurt various people and how it is not going to hurt the racing industry; but, of course, we know that the real story is quite different. We know that there have been some big lies told about the GST and how it will affect industry, and this is another lie in the Hewson campaign against the people of Australia. A 15 per cent tax would have to be paid out of an owner's prize money unless the owner was a hobby owner or a professional owner with an annual turnover of less than $50,000. Owners will have to pay GST on horses' feed, trainers' fees, jockeys' fees, vets' fees and other expenses. The GST will just kill the hobby owner, and hobby owners make up 80 per cent of all owners.
Keeping racehorses in Australia is worth $600m and, of this, $300m is paid by hobby owners. A 15 per cent tax will reap $45m from hobby owners alone and none of those costs will be deductible. Prize money is about $200m and half of this goes to amateurs. Under Hewson, there will be 15 per cent off. The cold, clammy hand of the Hewson tax man will be in your pocket every time you stick your hand in your pocket. You will have Hewson's hand in your pocket.
Mr De Domenico: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. Just to set the record straight, does Mr Berry realise that there is no GST on prize money?
Ms Follett: On a point of order, Madam Speaker: I heard Mr De Domenico say that Mr Berry was not telling the truth. I think that should be withdrawn.
Mr Humphries: He was not telling the truth.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, as every other member in this chamber knows, you are not permitted to impute improper motives to any member.
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