Aussies pay more tax on beer than international gas companies pay on Australian gas.
I had to replay the Senate hearing yesterday.
We are the world’s second biggest gas exporter.
$70 billion worth and Not a single offshore LNG project has ever paid a cent of PRRT.
Our expected revenue for 25/26:
Beer tax: $2.78 billion
Resource rent tax: $1.45 billion
Gas company donations to both major parties: $4 million
—oh wait sorry thats not revenue.
Beer drinkers will pay $4.8 billion more than gas companies over the next 4 years
Beer tax has hiked 84 times since 1983, and keeps going up every 6 months. $20 of every slab goes to the government.
Meanwhile gas companies write off billions and delay the bill indefinitely.
Both major parties had the chance to fix this and neither did. The gas lobby is more useful to them than you are.