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Dear Prime Minister,

RE: Tax gas exports - side with people not big corporations

Australians are getting ripped off. Over 56% of all Australian gas is exported without paying a cent in royalties.

Corporations like Santos and Woodside make billions each year, while barely paying anything in tax. All while every day people are being smashed by the cost of living crisis.

I am calling on you to legislate a minimum 25% export tax on gas revenue. This tax would raise an estimated $17 billion a year to help people with the fuel crisis and fund crucial cost of living relief. It could prioritise domestic gas supply during the renewable energy transition and ensure energy sovereignty.

A gas export tax has widespread public support. It is backed by the ACTU, ACOSS, climate groups and other leading experts like The Australia Institute.

Prime Minister, if you chose not to deliver a 25% gas export tax in this year’s budget it will be because you are siding with the war-profiteering gas corporations over the Australian public.

Whose side are you on?

The Prime Minister has a choice to make. He can side with gas corporations raking in mega profits or he can legislate a minimum 25% tax on gas exports to fund urgent cost of living relief. Sign the open letter to ask the Prime Minister: whose side are you on?

WHOSE SIDE IS LABOR ON?

Big gas corporations are ripping us off. Corporations like Santos and Chevron make billions each year, but barely pay anything in tax.

56% of all Australian gas is exported without paying a cent in royalties. And the USA’s illegal war in Iran is making these giant gas corporations even richer.

The Labor government has a choice to make: they can side with war-profiteering multinational gas corporations, or they can stand with the Australian people.

The Greens are fighting for a minimum 25% export tax on gas revenue.

This tax would: 

  • Raise an estimated $17 billion a year to help people with the fuel crisis and fund crucial cost of living relief.
  • Prioritise domestic gas supply during the renewable energy transition and ensure energy sovereignty.
  • Raise funds for vital services like the NDIS, public schools and the transition to clean energy.

The tax has widespread public support at a time when we critically need to ease the cost of living. Yet the Prime Minister is poised to pick the gas industry over you in the Budget, once again.

Add your voice to this open letter to urge the Prime Minister to change his mind before the Federal Budget. 

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What is the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax and why do we want to get rid of it?

The Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) is the current system used to try and tax gas exports, but it has utterly failed to deliver for Australia. Riddled with massive loopholes, it collects virtually no meaningful revenue from the multi-billion dollar gas industry.

The result is a national scandal: the government collects more money from things like beer excise and student HECS debt repayments than it does from all gas exports combined. It's a broken system that must be replaced.

Who pays more tax than gas exports?

Multinational gas corporations pay less tax on their billions in exports than many everyday Australians, including:

  1. Nurses
  2. Teachers
  3. Students with HECS debt
  4. Retail workers

If we had a 25% tax on gas exports...

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