Australian Greens call for uranium to be included in the Mineral Resources Rent Tax (MRRT)
Renewed calls for MRRT to include gold, uranium Mining Weekly, By: Esmarie Swanepoel 23rd February 2012 PERTH – The Australian Green Party has renewed calls to the federal government to include gold and uranium in the mineral resources rent tax (MRRT), in an effort to garner more revenue.
Greens leader Bob Brown said on Thursday that the Treasury needed to reconsider extending the mining tax across gold and uranium, as well as other minerals, while the nexus with royalties should be dropped.
“Australia has the means to adequately fund education, health, transport. It should not have a watered-down mining tax pass into law that fails to collect potential funding sourced from resources that
belong to the nation,” Brown said….
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