FED: PM steps up heat on Senate on GST with broadcast = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-1999
FED: PM steps up heat on Senate on GST with broadcast = 2

Opposition treasury spokesman Simon Crean ridiculed the tax reform call, issuing a parody
of Mr Howard's address under the heading "Howard's fireside chat: What he should have said".

"Six months ago, all Australians expressed a view on a tax system," Mr Crean said in a
statement.

"More than half of them voted against the complex and unfair GST proposed by the Howard
government."

Mr Crean said the real experience from Denmark, as in many other countries, was that the
GST inevitably rose.

"Yet it need not be that way," he said.

"An increase in the GST can be avoided by avoiding the GST itself."

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