Dear Mitch
Congratulations on your incredibly obtuse response to the RSPT. Your TV commercials are so effective I now change channels as soon as I see that chap pretending to be a concerned player and I am far from being Robinson Crusoe. This will ginger reform of your industry faster than anything the Federal Government does.
Reform of this sector’s tax regime is overdue. The replacement of a royalties regime by a super profits tax is the most efficient way of doing this. By all means argue about the transition arrangements and other structural issues, but by politicizing the Federal Government’s policy response you may have done this industry a disservice.
You can now be assured that every Federal agency and regularity authority with any interest in this industry will be charged to make a forensic analysis of your membership’s operations and financial dealings. I imagine there are some slightly nervous directors out there who had better have their houses in pristine order. You may even see calls for a review of the way mining leases are managed in this country.
I suggest you make the launch of this type of partisan political campaign at your peril. You have now got the complete attention of everyone with a brain that believes this tax reform is necessary.
Probably this is a good thing as it would be excellent to think Australian mining demonstrates world’s best practice in terms of corporate governance and global mining operations.
Good luck with that…
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