Bill
Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 [No. 2]
lapsed, as at 2014-07-10. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-06-23
- second reading — 2014-06-23
- second reading — 2014-06-26
- second reading — 2014-06-26
- third reading — 2014-06-26
- introduced — 2014-07-07
- second reading — 2014-07-07
- second reading — 2014-07-07
- second reading — 2014-07-08
- second reading — 2014-07-09
- second reading — 2014-07-09
- committee — 2014-07-09
- committee — 2014-07-10
- committee — 2014-07-10
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 2014-06-23.
This bill is part of a package that repeals the carbon tax and aims to stop businesses from unfairly raising prices after the repeal.
The package would let the competition watchdog track prices of certain goods and ban pricing abuses linked to the carbon tax removal.
Companies that break the ban could face fines of up to 6,471 penalty units, and individuals up to 1,295 penalty units.
- The package would forbid price exploitation on key goods like electricity and gas after the carbon tax is repealed.
- The package would give the ACCC new powers to monitor and assess price changes before and during the repeal transition.
- The package would stop companies from making false or misleading claims about how the carbon tax repeal affects prices.
Businesses supplying certain key goods, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
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