Monday 24 March 2014

" Hallelujah - Aussie Tax payers get a Small Refund at last !!!!! "

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                                                                     ( Me at my place )

Mike's Comments - 20/3/2014.

Now I realise that the likes of the Queensland Liberal/National Party Member for Dawson George Christensen MP and his offsider Dennis O'Riely wont be interested in reading this however I thought bugger it I will send them a copy and who knows maybe one day they will realise that there is a big wide world outside the back water of Queensland in the electorate of Dawson and ? extend their horizons and may take an interest??.

After all if they relied only on the tax revenue derived from the good burghers of Dawson then I doubt it would pay for their electricity bills let alone George Christensen's MP travel to and from Canberra and the very generous living away allowance to say nothing of George Christensen's MP world class tax payer fully funded superannuation scheme!!!!

Subject: No 1 " G/day from the Gold Coast "

G/day people welcome to the Gold Coast Queensland Australia where I have relocated my holiday - because as a retiree I consider I am on a permanent holiday thanks partly to the hard working Aussie tax payers therefore I relocate not go on holidays - for (10) days where the local bus service is " Bad one day! worse the next! " and a warning to my fellow NSW retirees/Senior Citizens if you fly up here like I did and rely on public transport bring a lot of spare cash with you because unlike the NSW system where we can travel on train,river Cat,ferry,bus from Bathurst in the West! to Sydney! Sydney to Newcastle! Sydney to Wollongong! and return continually over a (24) hour period for just $2.50 up here you have this very expensive bureaucratic zoning system where it depends where you get on/off how much your charged?? ? No wonder the drivers are grumpy and the buses three quarters empty?? probably thought up by the same group of bureaucrats that designed the " Camel "?? it is cheaper and far quicker in most cases to catch taxis!!

Main Subject: No 2 " Hallelujah - Aussie Tax Payers get a small Refund at last !!!! "

People although I did not vote for the Abbott mob but the Palmer mob instead ? who I - and I am sure 10's of 1000's of other voters are too still waiting to see them fire up and hoping they are not just another political damp squid?? are never the less - if reading the attached is anything to go by? - are a breath of political fresh air in regard to showing " A Duty of care and good governance " when it comes to spending tax payers hard earned funds and trying to assist small business which I participated in doing for some (35) years - a subject for a following mikes comments.

As compared to the Labor Mob - at all levels of this over governed country of ours! who are such control freaks they would have a bureaucrat on every street corner if they could just in case? in case of what??? you tell me? whatever it is they will find an excuse/reason for having one just to be politically correct if nothing else!! and support them with very generous tax payer fully funded salary/superannuation packages!!

However having said that I believe that after following politics now for many generations one of the best Treasurers we have had was Paul Keating and had he not been muzzled by the Labor Party factional dinosaurs especially the left union mob Keating would have done - or at least tried to do?? - what the Abbott mob are listing in the attachment below?? and hopefully more because as I witnessed as a small business person this country is drowning under bureaucratic regulation at all (3) levels of this over governed of ours !! starting with the Howard/Costello mob and heaped on by the Labor and Greenie parties!!

For every cent poured into administration whether that be in the private and/or public organisations only increases the overheads and reduces the bottom line because it is a cost centre not a revenue generating one!! and as such all (3) of our government levels - excluding say tourism - generate their revenue from the Aussie population which in turn is reducing their revenue/ spending power/funds which could be helping to create employment which intern increases the tax take for governments which is a positive cycle!!

As compared to pouring valuable/scarce Aussie funds into the pockets of the fat cats/bureaucrats at all (3) levels of this over governed country of ours with only 22 - 23 million in it?? this is a negative cycle which has been practiced by communist/dictatorships around the world and has and is failing miserably!!!!

Ok people speak up or watch your hard earned government taxes/fees/charges going down the negative gurgler trying to feed the voracious bureaucratic appetite which to all intents and purposes is the equivalent to a bottomless black hole or a cuckoo in a sparrows nest.

However if your happy with that then cop it sweet when in a few decades the then government states that there is insufficient funds for various government services and pensions which has and is happening around the world as I write this so don't whinge!!

Mike Howe - scroll down.

Wednesday 19 March 2014 Parliament House Canberra - Prime Minister. E & O E

Madam Speaker.

This is the Government’s first report on red tape and what we’re doing to reduce it.


Next week, the parliament will have its first ever repeal day: to abolish regulation and legislation that’s outlived its usefulness or is doing more harm than good.
Cutting red tape is at the heart of this Government’s mission: to build a strong and prosperous economy for a safe and secure Australia.
Red tape is what officials wrap people in when they think that government knows best.
So, cutting red tape is a sign that this Government and this parliament want Australians, individually and in the community, to have more control over their own
lives.
It’s an acknowledgement of the people, our masters.
Next week’s repeal day will scrap more than 9,500 unnecessary or counter-productive regulations and 1,000 redundant acts of Parliament.
More than 50,000 pages will disappear from the statute books.
Removing just these will save individuals and organisations more than $700 million a year, every year.
The first repeal day will abolish the Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission because people serving our community don’t deserve a new level of
scrutiny.
It will abolish the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor because all relevant legislation has already been reviewed and the former government
ignored all the Monitor’s recommendations.
Redundant acts regulating – for instance – the 1970s conversion from imperial to metric measurement, governing state naval divisions (that became part of
the Royal Australian Navy 101 years ago) and facilitating the construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme (that was completed in 1974) will all go.
As a result of repeal day, films will only need to be classified once – not again and again when they are reissued in DVD, blu-ray or 3D.
As a result of repeal day, businesses won’t have to re-apply to use agricultural chemicals and veterinary medicines because one approval should be enough.
Universities will no longer have to submit capital asset management surveys in addition to other surveys which cover essentially the same thing.
And jobs agencies will no longer be required to keep paper records of every applicant which, in one agency alone, occupied 336 filing cabinets.
Businesses will no longer be required to administer the former government’s paid parental leave scheme, saving them an estimated $48 million.
Associated with repeal day, national businesses will be allowed to operate under one workers’ compensation scheme right around our nation rather than
have to operate in up to eight.
Next week’s repeal day will be the first of many.
Under this government, there will be at least two a year – because we will make people’s lives easier, not harder.
It’s worth recalling that the first parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia passed just 513 pages of legislation – that’s just half a page of legislation
per day.
That’s worth contrasting with the last parliament, the 43rd, which passed half an Act of Parliament per day.
Between 2007 and 2013, under the former government, some 21,000 new regulations found their way into national life.
No doubt, some of these were good and necessary but some, clearly, were overkill at best.
Why should a long day-care centre with 15 staff and 75 places have to do paperwork said to cost, on average, $140,000 a year – which is $2000 a child or
nearly $10,000 a staff member?
The result of this is fewer child care services and higher prices for the ones that exist.
Why should a Sydney café that serves alcohol and has outdoor seating be subject to 21 local, 29 state and 25 Commonwealth regulations or sets of regulations?
That’s 75 different hoops to jump through that mean higher costs for businesses and fewer jobs for Australians.
Why should Australian medical researchers collectively put 500 years of work into preparing grant applications – of which only 20 per cent succeed?
That’s time not put into finding cures for disease.
Likewise, why should every Australian university be required to report more than 50 sets of data to the Commonwealth Department of Education and a further
50 to other government entities.
Because, again, this is time and money that’s not directed to teaching and research.
Of course, government should be confident that standards are maintained and that taxpayers’ money is accounted for but it’s too easy for officials to do their
job at others’ expense in the name of safety or accountability.
A reason why bricks and mortar retailing is losing out to on-line sales is the compliance costs that shops face – from planning regulations to product standards.
A reason why our farmers find it hard to compete is that one dollar in every six of their earnings, the NFF says, is spent on compliance.
About 60 per cent of Australian businesses are sole traders and 85 per cent have fewer than five employees.
All too often, the local newsagent, dry cleaner, baker and butcher has to be the accountant, marketer, HR manager and cleaner for the business as well as the
chief salesperson.
They are virtually suffocating in red tape and it’s well past time to say “enough”.
On the World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness ranking, Australia has slipped six places in four years, to 21st.
Australia’s ranking on the burden of government regulation, is 128th – yes, 128th in the world – nestled between Romania and Angola.
On The Economist’s productivity growth ranking, we come second last, just ahead of Botswana.
The first instinct of democratic politicians, confronted with a problem, is to promise to make it go away.
Like a fence at the top of a cliff, sometimes regulation is necessary but there’s a limit to what government should do to protect us from ourselves.
More regulation is not the solution to every corporate, community or personal failing.
Sometimes, we just have to accept that mistakes are inevitable and that misfortunes are unavoidable.
When someone in authority gets it wrong, the best outcome might be a timely resignation rather than more regulation.
When it comes to making us act responsibly, good example may be better than more rules.
As Tony Blair has conceded, government can’t guarantee a risk free life.
“Ambiguity, uncertainty, the wisdom that comes with failing and changing your mind”, he says, “are all essential to progress”; because “a risk averse public sector
will stifle creativity and deny to many the opportunities to be creative”.
Since day one, this Government has been cutting red tape.
On day one, we began the process of scrapping the carbon tax.
Repealing the carbon tax removes over 1,000 pages of primary and subordinate legislation and removes compliance costs from over 75,000 businesses.
Repealing the carbon tax not only takes a $9 billion handbrake off our economy and gives a $550 bonus to households but will provide a direct red tape saving to
business of $85 million a year.
And repealing the mining tax will save businesses more than $10 million in compliance costs.
Fifty-five announced-but-unlegislated tax measures will no longer proceed – including the previous government’s $1.8 billion FBT hit on the car industry, and the
cap on self-education expenses that would have hit tradies, nurses and teachers.
Every cabinet submission now has a regulation impact statement so that its potential impact on business, community groups and households can more readily be
identified.
All Commonwealth government portfolios now have a dedicated deregulation unit, formed from existing staff, because it’s sometimes more important to repeal
old laws than to pass new ones.
Each cabinet minister is expected to consult widely before finalising new policy because the first law of government should be: do no harm.
At the December COAG meeting, all states and territories agreed to create one-stop shops for environmental approvals so that major projects will only need to be
assessed once, not twice.
There’s already a one-stop-shop for offshore environmental approvals which the office of best practice regulation estimates will save businesses $120 million a year.
Soon, NH&MRC grants will run for five years – not three – so that successful medical researchers will spend less time filling out forms.
This government is making it easier for people to do business with government by reducing reporting requirements, by using credit cards more and by paying bills
on time.
This government has also scrapped the aged care workforce supplement that forced providers to sign up to union-dictated enterprise bargaining agreements.
All these measures demonstrate our seriousness about reducing red tape and making it easier for people to go about their lives.
But this is just the start, not the finish.
Every department and agency is conducting a comprehensive audit of the costs it puts on individuals and entities so that it can put a dollar figure on the cost of
compliance and reporting and start reducing it every year.
Every department and agency will be required to contribute towards the $1 billion a year, every year, in red tape cost savings that the government is committed
to deliver.
The Productivity Commission is finalising the indicators that will make red tape reduction easier to judge.
Not only will deregulation become a standing item on the COAG agenda but there’ll be less red tape within COAG, with the number of ministerial councils dropping
from 22 to eight.
The reviews that the government has in-train – into competition policy, workplace law, and the financial system – all have a deregulatory focus.
The White Papers that the government plans – into tax and into the federation – are both intended to reduce overlap and complexity.
We are carefully considering the former government’s changes to coastal shipping and its changes to trucking rates to ensure that they make doing business easier,
not harder.
For too long, governments have acted as if the Australian people work for them.
People don’t work for government; government should work for people.
It’s government’s job to serve the people; not people’s job to serve the government.
In simple terms, we work for you.
And we’re working for you today by creating the biggest bonfire of regulations in our country’s history.
Our mission is not bigger government; it’s bigger citizens with more opportunities.
To the Australian people, I say: this is about saving you money, saving you time, and trusting your common sense to make more choices about your life.
I am proud of the progress that the Government has made to date – but it’s only the start of what is to come.
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