Page 2235 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 9 May 2012

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The Assembly voted—

Ayes 11		Noes 6
Mr Barr	Mr Hargreaves	Mr Coe	Mr Smyth
Dr Bourke	Ms Hunter	Mr Doszpot
Ms Bresnan	Ms Le Couteur	Mrs Dunne
Ms Burch	Ms Porter	Mr Hanson
Mr Corbell	Mr Rattenbury	Mr Seselja
Ms Gallagher

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Motion, as amended, agreed to.

Taxation—Quinlan review

MS PORTER (Ginninderra) (3:04): I move:

That this Assembly:

(1) notes that the:

(a) Government released the ACT Taxation Review (the Quinlan Review) on 7 May 2012;

(b) Quinlan Review builds upon recommendations made by the A Future Tax System review by Dr Ken Henry;

(d) structural reform recommended includes abolition of a number of inefficient taxes such as stamp duty and insurance duties and revenue replacement by broad-based more efficient taxation levied on land;

(e) Government has released its response to the Quinlan Review; and

(f) Government response is based upon the central principles of improving the fairness, simplicity and efficiency of the system; and

(2) calls on the Government to:

(a) undertake structural reform to improve the fairness, simplicity and economic efficiency of the ACT taxation system; and

(b) undertake reform in a staged way to allow for appropriate transition time.

I am happy to be moving this motion today about the ACT taxation review. Members would be aware that the government in 2011 commissioned a review of the ACT

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