tax Claims | PoliticalClaims.au

4.5 Partially True

6.5

"Tax cuts from July 2024: person earning $75,000 receives $1,554 annually"

TaxCuts

5.9 Partially True

6.5

"Reformed Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, increasing receipts by $2.4 billion"

PetroleumResourceRent +2 more

C0003 Partially True

6.0

"Paid 8 times more than the market rate to conserve water in the Murray Darling Basin (overpayment of $112 million)."

EnvironmentTax

C0005 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $450 million on carbon capture and storage projects (CCS), resulting in every attempted project being cancelled or late, with no carbon actually..."

ClimateEnvironmentTax

C0006 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $1,400 per person per day to feed asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea. This $82 million contract was paid to a high-risk shell company owned by P..."

RefugeesTax

C0007 Partially True

5.0

"Quadrupled government net debt. Period Analyzed: Coalition Government (2013-2022)"

Tax

C0008 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $105 million on grants for marginal and Coalition-held electorates which they are expected to deliver less value than other proposals. They then..."

CorruptionTax

C0009 Partially True

6.5

"Allocated $44M from the Building Better Futures fund to marginal electorates, through a process that was clearly not merit based (a.k.a. 'pork barrell..."

CorruptionTax

C0014 True

7.5

"Paid $300 million to landfill operators for carbon credits (ACCUs) to incentivise them to burn methane which they would have burnt anyway. This is in ..."

ClimateEnvironmentTax

C0017 Partially True

5.5

"Spent $5.5 billion on French submarines that were never built. (In addition to the undisclosed fee for early contract termination, which is approximat..."

InternationalMilitaryTax

C0022 True

6.0

"Spent $18M on a new leadership program, given to an organisation with no staff, no track record in anything related to leadership, with an incorrect r..."

CorruptionTax

C0029 Partially True

6.5

"Refused to justify or breakdown the $400 million per year being spent running the Nauru immigration detention centre. The number of detainees has drop..."

CorruptionRefugeesTax

C0040 Partially True

6.5

"Announced a $800 bonus for aged care workers, but then processed the applications slowly, paying only 3% of aged care workers after 2 months. The gove..."

EconomyTax

C0041 Partially True

6.5

"Paid hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon credits to landowners for growing trees which were already there."

ClimateEnvironmentTax

C0042 Misleading

4.0

"Waited 4 months between being told by the Therapeutic Goods Administration that a new treatment for cystic fibrosis should be allowed, before putting ..."

COVIDTax

C0044 True

6.5

"Spent $675,000 travelling to investigate drought relief. When asked why nothing was produced from the trip, the government pointed to SMS messages, ca..."

CorruptionEnvironmentTax

C0048 Misleading

5.0

"Spent $77.5M just to investigate whether to continue the train line to the new western Sydney airport by one station, to close the loop instead of a d..."

Tax

C0053 Misleading

4.0

"Planned (if re-elected in 2022) to cut federal funding for Australian music to $0."

ArtsTax

C0060 Partially True

5.5

"Introduced legislation designed to make gig economy companies like Deliveroo report more tax information about their employees, which was so sloppily ..."

CyberEconomyTax

C0063 Partially True

6.0

"Lied by claiming that $90 million worth of oil for Australia's stockpile in the USA was bought at 'record low prices'. The oil was bought at 40 USD pe..."

Energy SecurityTax

C0066 Misleading

3.0

"Added red tape for business by forcing company directors to register for a special identifier through myGovID. This is supposed to make it easier for ..."

CorruptionTax

C0073 Partially True

5.5

"Refused to tell the public how much they're paying a private company to build the COVID vaccine passport system which is already 6 months behind sched..."

CorruptionCOVIDTax

C0077 Partially True

6.0

"Obscured millions of dollars of funding to a think-tank co-funded by private arms manufacturers, which primarily just creates anti-China sentiment and..."

CorruptionInternationalMilitary +1 more

C0078 Partially True

6.0

"Failed to deliver any new assets or infrastructure 2 years on after a big announcement about drones patrolling our maritime border."

MilitaryRefugeesTax

C0080 True

6.5

"Increased marketing spend for weapons exports from $1 million per year to $20 million."

EthicsInternationalMilitary +1 more

C0081 True

8.0

"Allocated $660 million in funding for new car parks based on which electorates were marginal for the upcoming election instead of which areas most nee..."

CorruptionTax

C0082 Partially True

6.0

"Paid hundreds of millions of dollars to for-profit private companies to oversee and deliver COVID vaccine distribution, instead of using the existing,..."

CorruptionCOVIDDonors +1 more

C0084 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $600 million building a new gas power plant after the private sector decided it made no commercial sense to do so."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment +1 more

C0085 Partially True

6.0

"Paid $2 billion to help keep private for-profit oil refineries open, which they claim will save consumers only 1 cent per litre when filling up their ..."

ClimateEconomyEnvironment +1 more

C0086 Partially True

6.0

"Paid $6.7 million in JobKeeper subsidies to a private company whose profits quadrupled during 2020, and which is half-owned by a foreigner via a shell..."

COVIDEconomyTax +1 more

C0087 Partially True

6.0

"Handed $1.34 billion to Qantas (a private company) for the purpose of creating jobs, but Qantas spent most of that paying redundancy packages while cu..."

EconomyTaxWelfare

C0088 Partially True

6.5

"Handed $38 billion in JobKeeper payments to companies who did not suffer significant downturns during COVID, and refused to ask for the money back onc..."

EconomyTaxWelfare

C0089 Partially True

5.0

"Underwrote surge costs on popular airline routes. That is, risk is being shouldered by the taxpayer, whilst profit is privatised. This increases off-b..."

CorruptionTax

C0091 True

7.0

"Went over far budget and overdue for construction of new government owned Snowy Hydro pumped storage. They said it would cost $2 billion and take 4 ye..."

Tax

C0092 True

8.0

"Removed 3 out of 4 recommendations from a report investigating a blank-cheque payment to a private consultant which was made without even verifying th..."

CorruptionTax

C0093 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $250,000 per month developing an NDIS app. They have no data about how many users wanted the app."

DisabilityTaxWelfare

C0095 Partially True

7.0

"Spent $10 million per month maintaining an offshore oil rig that is not producing any oil, after private owners profited for many years for costs of o..."

ClimateCorruptionEnvironment +1 more

C0097 True

7.0

"Gave $2.7 million to a private company for a buzzword-rich trial about blockchain and distributed energy."

TaxTech

C0099 Partially True

7.0

"Spent $3.7 million making a video to teach 16 year-olds about sexual consent without talking about sex. The video was pulled within days due to it bei..."

EducationEthicsTax +1 more

C0102 Partially True

6.5

"Paid $1.6 billion to house only 115 asylum seekers offshore, at a daily price about 10 times higher than the most expensive room at Sydney's Four Seas..."

CorruptionDonorsRefugees +1 more

C0103 Partially True

6.0

"Charged taxpayers for a domestic flight to a personal lunch."

CorruptionTax

C0106 Misleading

4.0

"Modified an infrastructure funding scheme to bypass state governments, to allow investment in fossil fuels without being blocked by the Northern Terri..."

ClimateEnvironmentTax

C0119 Partially True

6.5

"Paid $39 million to a naval boat manufacturer when not required to because the company failed to fulfil the relevant contract clauses, and they coinci..."

CorruptionDonorsMilitary +1 more

C0128 Partially True

7.0

"Bought water rights for 50 times more than many valuations, and double the price of the seller's valuation."

CorruptionEnvironmentTax

C0129 Partially True

5.0

"Spent money chartering a RAAF flight from Sydney to Canberra, even though Qantas services that route frequently at price that is 17 times cheaper."

Tax

C0132 Partially True

6.0

"Refused to publish a $2.5 million evaluation of the cashless welfare card system because the evaluation found that the $80 million program was not cle..."

CorruptionTaxWelfare

C0136 True

7.0

"Cut $14 million from the national audit office, after that office discovered substantial improprieties and wasteful spending (such as the sports rorts..."

CorruptionTax

C0137 Partially True

6.5

"Refused to release a report into COVID policy communication strategies, which cost over $500,000."

CorruptionCOVIDTax

C0138 Partially True

5.0

"Spent $256 million just to add facial recognition as a login option for government services."

Tax

C0140 Partially True

6.0

"Introduced instant asset write off tax breaks for businesses during COVID, which will cost over $30 billion, to boost the economy by only $10 billion."

COVIDEconomyTax

All tax Claims

"Tax cuts from July 2024: person earning $75,000 receives $1,554 annually"

"Reformed Petroleum Resource Rent Tax, increasing receipts by $2.4 billion"

"Paid 8 times more than the market rate to conserve water in the Murray Darling Basin (overpayment of $112 million)."

"Spent $450 million on carbon capture and storage projects (CCS), resulting in every attempted project being cancelled or late, with no carbon actually..."

"Spent $1,400 per person per day to feed asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea. This $82 million contract was paid to a high-risk shell company owned by P..."

"Quadrupled government net debt. Period Analyzed: Coalition Government (2013-2022)"

"Spent $105 million on grants for marginal and Coalition-held electorates which they are expected to deliver less value than other proposals. They then..."

"Allocated $44M from the Building Better Futures fund to marginal electorates, through a process that was clearly not merit based (a.k.a. 'pork barrell..."

"Paid $300 million to landfill operators for carbon credits (ACCUs) to incentivise them to burn methane which they would have burnt anyway. This is in ..."

"Spent $5.5 billion on French submarines that were never built. (In addition to the undisclosed fee for early contract termination, which is approximat..."

"Spent $18M on a new leadership program, given to an organisation with no staff, no track record in anything related to leadership, with an incorrect r..."

"Refused to justify or breakdown the $400 million per year being spent running the Nauru immigration detention centre. The number of detainees has drop..."

"Announced a $800 bonus for aged care workers, but then processed the applications slowly, paying only 3% of aged care workers after 2 months. The gove..."

"Paid hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon credits to landowners for growing trees which were already there."

"Waited 4 months between being told by the Therapeutic Goods Administration that a new treatment for cystic fibrosis should be allowed, before putting ..."

"Spent $675,000 travelling to investigate drought relief. When asked why nothing was produced from the trip, the government pointed to SMS messages, ca..."

"Spent $77.5M just to investigate whether to continue the train line to the new western Sydney airport by one station, to close the loop instead of a d..."

"Planned (if re-elected in 2022) to cut federal funding for Australian music to $0."

"Introduced legislation designed to make gig economy companies like Deliveroo report more tax information about their employees, which was so sloppily ..."

"Lied by claiming that $90 million worth of oil for Australia's stockpile in the USA was bought at 'record low prices'. The oil was bought at 40 USD pe..."

"Added red tape for business by forcing company directors to register for a special identifier through myGovID. This is supposed to make it easier for ..."

"Refused to tell the public how much they're paying a private company to build the COVID vaccine passport system which is already 6 months behind sched..."

"Obscured millions of dollars of funding to a think-tank co-funded by private arms manufacturers, which primarily just creates anti-China sentiment and..."

"Failed to deliver any new assets or infrastructure 2 years on after a big announcement about drones patrolling our maritime border."

"Increased marketing spend for weapons exports from $1 million per year to $20 million."

"Allocated $660 million in funding for new car parks based on which electorates were marginal for the upcoming election instead of which areas most nee..."

"Paid hundreds of millions of dollars to for-profit private companies to oversee and deliver COVID vaccine distribution, instead of using the existing,..."

"Spent $600 million building a new gas power plant after the private sector decided it made no commercial sense to do so."

"Paid $2 billion to help keep private for-profit oil refineries open, which they claim will save consumers only 1 cent per litre when filling up their ..."

"Paid $6.7 million in JobKeeper subsidies to a private company whose profits quadrupled during 2020, and which is half-owned by a foreigner via a shell..."

"Handed $1.34 billion to Qantas (a private company) for the purpose of creating jobs, but Qantas spent most of that paying redundancy packages while cu..."

"Handed $38 billion in JobKeeper payments to companies who did not suffer significant downturns during COVID, and refused to ask for the money back onc..."

"Underwrote surge costs on popular airline routes. That is, risk is being shouldered by the taxpayer, whilst profit is privatised. This increases off-b..."

"Went over far budget and overdue for construction of new government owned Snowy Hydro pumped storage. They said it would cost $2 billion and take 4 ye..."

"Removed 3 out of 4 recommendations from a report investigating a blank-cheque payment to a private consultant which was made without even verifying th..."

"Spent $250,000 per month developing an NDIS app. They have no data about how many users wanted the app."

"Spent $10 million per month maintaining an offshore oil rig that is not producing any oil, after private owners profited for many years for costs of o..."

"Gave $2.7 million to a private company for a buzzword-rich trial about blockchain and distributed energy."

"Spent $3.7 million making a video to teach 16 year-olds about sexual consent without talking about sex. The video was pulled within days due to it bei..."

"Paid $1.6 billion to house only 115 asylum seekers offshore, at a daily price about 10 times higher than the most expensive room at Sydney's Four Seas..."

"Charged taxpayers for a domestic flight to a personal lunch."

"Modified an infrastructure funding scheme to bypass state governments, to allow investment in fossil fuels without being blocked by the Northern Terri..."

"Paid $39 million to a naval boat manufacturer when not required to because the company failed to fulfil the relevant contract clauses, and they coinci..."

"Bought water rights for 50 times more than many valuations, and double the price of the seller's valuation."

"Spent money chartering a RAAF flight from Sydney to Canberra, even though Qantas services that route frequently at price that is 17 times cheaper."

"Refused to publish a $2.5 million evaluation of the cashless welfare card system because the evaluation found that the $80 million program was not cle..."

"Cut $14 million from the national audit office, after that office discovered substantial improprieties and wasteful spending (such as the sports rorts..."

"Refused to release a report into COVID policy communication strategies, which cost over $500,000."

"Spent $256 million just to add facial recognition as a login option for government services."

"Introduced instant asset write off tax breaks for businesses during COVID, which will cost over $30 billion, to boost the economy by only $10 billion."

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