Bill
Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2016
passed, as at 2016-12-02. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-10-12
- second reading — 2016-10-12
- second reading — 2016-10-17
- second reading — 2016-10-17
- third reading — 2016-10-17
- introduced — 2016-11-07
- second reading — 2016-11-07
- second reading — 2016-11-23
- second reading — 2016-11-23
- other — 2016-11-24
- second reading — 2016-11-24
- third reading — 2016-11-24
- third reading — 2016-11-24
- passed — 2016-11-24
- royal assent — 2016-12-02
Divisions
- Graham Perrett I rise to speak on the Income Tax Rates Amendment (Working Holiday Maker Reform) Bill 2016. This bill places a new tax on the wages of foreign backpackers when they are in Australia on a working holiday. This was a measure announced by the government in the 2015 budget. In that announcement, the Abbott government proposed a 32.5 per cent tax on backpackers. Not surprisingly, in what is becoming a familiar chaotic style, the Liberal-National party government is back-pedalling from the original 32½ per cent tax and is now proposing a 19 per cent tax on backpackers. Sadly, the number of backpackers coming to Australia to work was decreasing before the government announced this measure in 2015, but, in so announcing that tax on the wages of backpackers, it has made the situation worse. The impact of fewer backpackers working in Australia has dire consequences for our horticulture growers. I know this because the Brisbane markets is in my electorate and I have had feedback from several growers about some of the concerns they have. Growers face the prospect of seeing their fruit rot on their trees because they do not have anyone to pick it. Even at 19 per cent, Treasury modelling shows that the backpacker tax will have a detrimental effect on the number of backpackers willing to travel to Australia on a working holiday. Obviously, that in turn will have a flow-on consequence for our farmers. The uncertainty that the Turnbull government has created around this proposed tax has caused unnecessary stress for farmers, whose very livelihoods are at stake—in Tasmania, the north-west of Western Australia, Queensland and everywhere in between. This is obviously a tax grab by the government. The original proposal was going to rake in $540 million from foreign backpackers. Sadly, the Turnbull government, particularly the Deputy Prime Minister, have handled this issue very badly. They did not consult with stakeholders or do any modelling when they put forward this pro — 2016-10-17, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 76, noes 69
- Joel Fitzgibbon This government is treating our farmers and our tourism operators in this country— Tony Smith The member for Hunter will resume his seat. The Treasurer. Scott Morrison I move: That the question be now put. — 2016-10-17, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 80, noes 65
- Scott Morrison I ask leave of the House to move the third reading immediately. Leave not granted. I move: That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent the motion for the third reading being moved without delay. Tony Burke Speaking to the motion, Mr Speaker, we are gagging debate when the Senate is not going to meet for three weeks. The bill has to make it 300 metres— Tony Smith The Manager of Opposition Business will resume his seat. The Treasurer has the call. Scott Morrison I move: That the question be now put. Tony Smith The question now is that the motion moved by the Treasurer be agreed to. Question agreed to. — 2016-10-17, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 80, noes 65
- Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2016 - Second Reading - Agree with the bill's main idea — 2016-11-23, Senate: negative, ayes 30, noes 31
- Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2016 - Second Reading - Agree to the bill's main idea (re-vote) — 2016-11-24, Senate: affirmative, ayes 35, noes 34
- Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2016 - Third Reading - Pass the bill — 2016-11-24, Senate: affirmative, ayes 36, noes 33
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