Bill

Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates and Other Amendments) Bill 2013 [No. 2]

lapsed, as at 2014-07-09. Treasury portfolio.

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Portfolio

Treasury

Recorded stages

• introduced — 2014-06-23

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• second reading — 2014-06-23

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• second reading — 2014-06-26

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• second reading — 2014-06-26

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• third reading — 2014-06-26

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• introduced — 2014-07-07

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• second reading — 2014-07-07

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• second reading — 2014-07-07

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• second reading — 2014-07-08

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• second reading — 2014-07-09

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• second reading — 2014-07-09

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Divisions

• This division relates to the Policy _[For a carbon price](/policies/3)_. The majority voted against a [motion](http://www.openaustralia.org/senate/?gid=2014-07-09.33.1) "that the Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates and Other Amendments) Bill 2013 [No.2] be read a second time."(Read more about the stages that a bill must pass through to become law [here](http://www.peo.gov.au/learning/fact-sheets/making-a-law.html). ) This means that the majority disagreed with the bill and that it was rejected. This bill was introduced to repeal legislated changes to the tax-free threshold, tax rates and tax offsets for individual taxpayers which will otherwise occur from 1 July 2015.(Read more about this bill in its [bills digest](http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1415a/15bd004) and the [bills digest](http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1314a/14bd018) for the previous version of this bill, called the [Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates and Other Amendments) Bill 2013](http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query%3DId%3A%22legislation%2Fbillhome%2Fr5114%22). ) These measures had been introduced by the previous Labor Government to compensate for any increased housing costs that may occur under the floating carbon price. The Liberal Government argued that "without the carbon tax, the tax cuts are not necessary".(Read more about the income tax measures on ABC News [here](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-09/government-fails-to-bring-on-early-carbon-tax-vote/5583696). ) _Background to the bills_ The Clean Energy Legislation (Carbon Tax Repeal) Bill 2013 (No. 2) was introduced along with the Clean Energy (Income Tax Rates and Other Amendments) Bill 2013 [No.2] and other related bills to remove the [carbon pricing mechanism](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_pricing_in_Australia), which was introduced by the Australian Labor Party while in government. The Coalition described the mechanism as a “carbon tax” — 2014-07-09, Senate: negative, ayes 33, noes 41

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