Bill
Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013
lapsed, as at 2014-03-20. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2013-11-13
- second reading — 2013-11-13
- second reading — 2013-11-18
- second reading — 2013-11-19
- second reading — 2013-11-20
- second reading — 2013-11-21
- second reading — 2013-11-21
- committee — 2013-11-21
- third reading — 2013-11-21
- introduced — 2013-12-02
- second reading — 2013-12-02
- second reading — 2014-03-03
- second reading — 2014-03-04
- second reading — 2014-03-17
- second reading — 2014-03-17
- committee — 2014-03-17
- committee — 2014-03-20
- third reading — 2014-03-20
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2013-11-13.
This bill is part of a package that repeals the carbon tax and includes measures to prevent price exploitation.
The package would prohibit businesses from engaging in carbon-specific price exploitation for key goods like electricity and gas, with penalties of up to 6,471 penalty units for corporations and 1,295 for individuals.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission would gain monitoring powers to assess the effect of the repeal on prices and assist in enforcing the new prohibition.
- Introduces a new prohibition on carbon-specific price exploitation for key goods.
- Gives the ACCC powers to monitor prices and assess the effect of the carbon tax repeal.
- Prohibits false or misleading representations about the carbon tax repeal's effect on prices.
Businesses supplying key goods such as electricity and gas, and consumers.
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