❓ Opposition questions the Premier's claim of land tax cuts for $1 million properties, alleging that rising property values will lead to increased land tax bills despite the cuts. The Premier avoids a direct answer, instead attacking the questioner's credibility.
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STATE BUDGET - LAND TAX 227. Mr T. BUSWELL to the Premier: Yesterday, in attempting to defend the state budget, the Premier claimed that owners of $1 million properties will now receive a lower land tax bill as a result of the government’s tax cuts. (1) Can the Premier confirm that because of the expected 49 per cent increase in property prices specified in the budget, the land tax bill on the same $1 million property next year will actually increase from $4 567 to $5 550, despite the government’s supposed tax cuts? (2) Yesterday the Premier claimed that land tax paid in Queensland on a $1 million property would be around $12 000. Why did the Premier not go on to inform the house that this figure applied only to land owned by companies and trustees, and that individual mum and dad landowners in Queensland would pay land tax of only $6 000? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : At least six members breached the rules in relation to interjections before the Premier uttered one word. I am of the view that continual breaches will not be tolerated any longer. We have had enough. Yesterday was a disgrace, in my view. I will not tolerate the interjection levels that were experienced yesterday. Mr A.J. CARPENTER
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(1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
STATE BUDGET - LAND TAX
Yesterday, in attempting to defend the state budget, the Premier claimed that owners of $1 million properties will now receive a lower land tax bill as a result of the government’s tax cuts. (1) Can the Premier confirm that because of the expected 49 per cent increase in property prices specified in the budget, the land tax bill on the same $1 million property next year will actually increase from $4 567 to $5 550, despite the government’s supposed tax cuts? (2) Yesterday the Premier claimed that land tax paid in Queensland on a $1 million property would be around $12 000. Why did the Premier not go on to inform the house that this figure applied only to land owned by companies and trustees, and that individual mum and dad landowners in Queensland would pay land tax of only $6 000? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : At least six members breached the rules in relation to interjections before the Premier uttered one word. I am of the view that continual breaches will not be tolerated any longer. We have had enough. Yesterday was a disgrace, in my view. I will not tolerate the interjection levels that were experienced yesterday. Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
(1) Can the Premier confirm that because of the expected 49 per cent increase in property prices specified in the budget, the land tax bill on the same $1 million property next year will actually increase from $4 567 to $5 550, despite the government’s supposed tax cuts? (2) Yesterday the Premier claimed that land tax paid in Queensland on a $1 million property would be around $12 000. Why did the Premier not go on to inform the house that this figure applied only to land owned by companies and trustees, and that individual mum and dad landowners in Queensland would pay land tax of only $6 000? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : At least six members breached the rules in relation to interjections before the Premier uttered one word. I am of the view that continual breaches will not be tolerated any longer. We have had enough. Yesterday was a disgrace, in my view. I will not tolerate the interjection levels that were experienced yesterday. Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
(2) Yesterday the Premier claimed that land tax paid in Queensland on a $1 million property would be around $12 000. Why did the Premier not go on to inform the house that this figure applied only to land owned by companies and trustees, and that individual mum and dad landowners in Queensland would pay land tax of only $6 000? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : At least six members breached the rules in relation to interjections before the Premier uttered one word. I am of the view that continual breaches will not be tolerated any longer. We have had enough. Yesterday was a disgrace, in my view. I will not tolerate the interjection levels that were experienced yesterday. Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : At least six members breached the rules in relation to interjections before the Premier uttered one word. I am of the view that continual breaches will not be tolerated any longer. We have had enough. Yesterday was a disgrace, in my view. I will not tolerate the interjection levels that were experienced yesterday. Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
The SPEAKER : At least six members breached the rules in relation to interjections before the Premier uttered one word. I am of the view that continual breaches will not be tolerated any longer. We have had enough. Yesterday was a disgrace, in my view. I will not tolerate the interjection levels that were experienced yesterday. Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
(1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
STATE BUDGET - LAND TAX
Yesterday, in attempting to defend the state budget, the Premier claimed that owners of $1 million properties will now receive a lower land tax bill as a result of the government’s tax cuts. (1) Can the Premier confirm that because of the expected 49 per cent increase in property prices specified in the budget, the land tax bill on the same $1 million property next year will actually increase from $4 567 to $5 550, despite the government’s supposed tax cuts? (2) Yesterday the Premier claimed that land tax paid in Queensland on a $1 million property would be around $12 000. Why did the Premier not go on to inform the house that this figure applied only to land owned by companies and trustees, and that individual mum and dad landowners in Queensland would pay land tax of only $6 000? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : At least six members breached the rules in relation to interjections before the Premier uttered one word. I am of the view that continual breaches will not be tolerated any longer. We have had enough. Yesterday was a disgrace, in my view. I will not tolerate the interjection levels that were experienced yesterday. Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
(1) Can the Premier confirm that because of the expected 49 per cent increase in property prices specified in the budget, the land tax bill on the same $1 million property next year will actually increase from $4 567 to $5 550, despite the government’s supposed tax cuts? (2) Yesterday the Premier claimed that land tax paid in Queensland on a $1 million property would be around $12 000. Why did the Premier not go on to inform the house that this figure applied only to land owned by companies and trustees, and that individual mum and dad landowners in Queensland would pay land tax of only $6 000? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : At least six members breached the rules in relation to interjections before the Premier uttered one word. I am of the view that continual breaches will not be tolerated any longer. We have had enough. Yesterday was a disgrace, in my view. I will not tolerate the interjection levels that were experienced yesterday. Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
(2) Yesterday the Premier claimed that land tax paid in Queensland on a $1 million property would be around $12 000. Why did the Premier not go on to inform the house that this figure applied only to land owned by companies and trustees, and that individual mum and dad landowners in Queensland would pay land tax of only $6 000? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : At least six members breached the rules in relation to interjections before the Premier uttered one word. I am of the view that continual breaches will not be tolerated any longer. We have had enough. Yesterday was a disgrace, in my view. I will not tolerate the interjection levels that were experienced yesterday. Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : At least six members breached the rules in relation to interjections before the Premier uttered one word. I am of the view that continual breaches will not be tolerated any longer. We have had enough. Yesterday was a disgrace, in my view. I will not tolerate the interjection levels that were experienced yesterday. Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
The SPEAKER : At least six members breached the rules in relation to interjections before the Premier uttered one word. I am of the view that continual breaches will not be tolerated any longer. We have had enough. Yesterday was a disgrace, in my view. I will not tolerate the interjection levels that were experienced yesterday. Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER replied: (1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
(1)-(2) I am grateful for the question. The Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars is sitting over there as the shadow Treasurer; the Stephen Hawking of budget analysts. I am still amazed that nobody in the Western Australian or international media has picked up on his new method of analysing budgets. Nobody has picked up that the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars has blown Peter Costello right out of the water by exposing the fact that, although Peter Costello was claiming that he was giving people tax cuts, he was actually whacking them even harder, with $11 billion in tax hikes. I cannot understand why that story does not have traction and has not been written. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
The SPEAKER : I call to order the members for Moore, Vasse, Darling Range and Cottesloe. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Let me ask the member for Vasse this rhetorical question in return: can he guarantee that no Australian taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr T. Buswell : I can guarantee you this, Premier: a person with a land tax bill on a $1 million property last year will pay more in land tax next year, despite the fact that you went out and told people that the land tax would fall. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : See - the member cannot give such a guarantee, because there are some income earners whose incomes will go up and push them into a higher tax bracket. It is quite transparent to most people in the house that what the Nicholas Copernicus of fiscal scholars lacks in intellectual depth, he tries to make up for in volume and the repetitiveness of interjection. Perhaps we should start a little exercise, and put the stopwatch on him to see for how long he can go without interjecting. Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr T. Buswell interjected. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : It is the speed of light! Not only is he a genius, but also he is rapid and quick! This fellow is as sharp as a razor! I am still waiting for his revelation to blow Peter Costello out of the water. There we go. Far more publicity will be made of the land tax scales in Western Australia. I can assure members that the land tax scales speak for themselves. Land tax has been dramatically reduced in Western Australia. Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Can you guarantee that land tax bills will be no higher? Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : Can the member for Cottesloe, obviously a scholar of some note, guarantee that no individual Australian income taxpayer will pay higher income tax next year? Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr C.J. Barnett : Some will; in fact, I hope I am, because it will mean that I am earning more. Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Mr A.J. CARPENTER : So, some taxpayers will pay higher taxes. He has blown Costello out of the water again. Yes, there will be some properties valued at close to the threshold that will be moved across the threshold by a new valuation. One would expect such landowners to face the bill that is applicable to the new threshold. That is not something unusual; it has been the situation in every single budget application in the history of the state since land taxes have been applied and thresholds have been applied as well. It is a fact of life. The Treasurer revealed yesterday a reduction in the tax take in an economy that is booming. The economy is bursting; it is growing rapidly and the underlying economic activity generates more tax receipts. In the face of that, the government’s tax take is actually declining. I would like to know the last time any state’s tax receipts declined. There we go. I thank the member for the question. He daily exposes himself as completely and utterly deficient for the task that his party, somewhat reluctantly, has given him. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
The SPEAKER : I call the members for Cottesloe, Murdoch and Nedlands to order.
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