Skip navigation

Greens will oppose company tax cut for big business

profile image
Adam Bandt MP
Federal Member for Melbourne
22 March 2016

Greens Treasury spokesperson Adam Bandt MP today announced that the Greens will not support any cut to the company tax rate for big business.

“The Greens will not support any attempt to cut the company tax rate for big business,” Mr Bandt said.

“If Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison want to make big businesses pay even less tax, they will need to get the support of the Labor Party.”

"When it comes to paying tax, big business is getting away with murder but the Liberals' response is to offer them a tax cut.”

“It is ridiculous that the Liberal government is even considering cutting the amount of tax that big business pays when the ATO has released data today showing that almost 100 of Australia’s richest private companies paid absolutely no company tax.”

“Now is the time to make big business pay their fair share of tax, not to try make them pay less tax.”

"This budget must be about reducing inequality and securing the country's revenue base to fund schools, hospitals and infrastructure, not handing out unaffordable tax cuts."

“The Greens have a plan to end unfair tax breaks that benefit the very wealthy and bring in the revenue we need to properly fund our schools, hospitals and infrastructure.”

Media contact: Adam Pulford, 0429 109 054

profile image
Adam Bandt MP
Federal Member for Melbourne
22 March 2016
SHARE:

WHAT I'M FIGHTING FOR


LATEST NEWS

NEWS

Supporting Public Housing Communities

On Saturday July 4 the Victorian Labor government announced that nine public housing towers in North Melbourne and Flemington would be placed under a “hard lockdown” preventing residents from leaving their home for at least five days.  The Greens have supported and will continue to support governments taking a ‘health-first’...

MEDIA RELEASE

Adam Bandt elected as Greens leader, kicks off fight for a Green New Deal

Adam Bandt MP, Member for Melbourne, has been elected as the Australian Greens Parliamentary Leader. Adam used his first media conference as leader to call for a government-led Green New Deal to tackle the climate emergency and the jobs and inequality crises. Adam also made a strong pitch to young...

MEDIA RELEASE

Bandt push for free childcare as next step in Green New Deal plan

Australian Greens Leader Adam Bandt has outlined his vision for universal childcare as part of the Green New Deal recently unveiled after the change in leadership. Mr Bandt said his goal is for universally accessible and free childcare and detailed a policy that would be the first big steps to...

Scott Morrison caught cheating on climate: Bandt

Greens spokesperson for the climate crisis, Adam Bandt MP, has labelled Scott Morrison and his government a pack of climate cheats and said he has been caught out. The government’s climate cheating strategy is in tatters because: Currently, the Paris Agreement rules do not allow for dodgy carryover credits and current...