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This new tax is unfair, wrongly targeted and highly inefficient. It should be withdrawn.

Shipping Australia Limited is just one of many industry groups that are angry that the Federal Government will not take biosecurity seriously and is trying to double tax the shipping and import industries. This new tax makes imported goods more expensive for all Australians and eats into our export earnings too.

Strong biosecurity is essential for Australia. It supports our economy by protecting our...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/the-new-biosecurity-levy-smoke-and-mirrors-lies-or-spin/

The tariff war developing between USA and China seems to be hotting up.

As if Australia is trying to get in on the act, the new budget biosecurity levy, a broad-based tariff on all imports, looks very much like Australia’s first salvo in the global tariff war.

This is a tax on everything: building products, cement, fertiliser, fuel, cars and household goods, whether they present a biosecurity risk or not.  These items are essential to day to day life.

And it’s not even efficient revenue collection...

https://shippingaustralia.com.au/why-the-governments-new-biosecurity-tax-is-wrong-on-all-counts/