Fed: GST will give voters stark choice Crean

AAP General News (Australia)
02-17-2000
Fed: GST will give voters stark choice Crean

The federal opposition says the GST will give voters a stark choice at the next election,
with the coalition committed to extending it and Labor ready to roll it back.

Opposition deputy leader SIMON CREAN, who took a pair of pyjamas from Woolworths into
parliament question time yesterday to show their price was rising a full 10 per cent,
says the GST is already in a mess.

Mr CREAN has told Channel Nine that Labor is urging the government to reconsider its position.

He says that if the government can't explain how its tax applies, how does it expect
ordinary Australians to understand it?

Mr CREAN's repeated Labor's statement that the tax can't be scrapped once it's been
introduced, but the ALP would roll it back where it was most unfair.

Mr CREAN says the GST has already pushed up interest rates.

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