Factcheck: It's true. A 25% gas exports tax could be a game-changer for the arts.
A "25% tax on gas exports would make “17 billion dollars a year”, and, as ARIA-award-winning musician Montaigne claims, “if even a fraction of [that money] was directed to music and the arts, it could change the game”. They're right — if less than one fiftieth of the potential annual revenue from the 25% gas exports tax went to arts funding, that alone could be transformative.
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Factcheck: Will the cut in the fuel tax excise be inflationary? No, it will not be.
Economists and other inflation watchers are claiming that the cut in the fuel excise will be inflationary. This is not true, as this claim ignores everything else that is happening in the economy right now.
Do Tim Wilson’s claims on the gas export tax stack up? No, they don’t.
Shadow Treasury spokesperson, Tim Wilson, was on Triple J’s Hack yesterday and he made some interesting statements and claims about gas tax. To set the record straight: royalties are not tax, Australia does not have a gas shortage, and beer drinkers do pay more, than gas companies pay the PRRT.
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Factcheck: Yes, Ed Husic is right. Australia exports gas so cheaply that Japanese companies profit from on-selling our gas
The claim is true. Japanese companies are on-selling a lot of Australian LNG and making a lot of profit while doing it.
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Gas export tax won’t harm trade or diplomacy despite industry scare campaign claims
Will a gas export tax harm our diplomatic relationships? No. Foreign companies being sad about having to pay some tax in Australia is quite different to foreign countries losing trust in Australia as a reliable trade partner.
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