Carbon Tax to Kill Car Jobs

13-May-2011

Today the car industry has sent a clear message that the Gillard carbon tax will kill car jobs.

Modelling from PricewaterhouseCoopers shows that the impact could reach $84 million annually. Australian car makers now join a ballooning list of industries who have condemned the carbon tax as economic vandalism and a job destroying tax.

“I welcome the car industry’s frank revelations that the carbon tax will undermine the sustainability of their industry and jobs against non-carbon taxed imports,” shadow Minister for Innovation Industry and Science, Sophie Mirabella said.

“They have made it abundantly clear to Ms Gillard, Greg Combet and Kim Carr that a carbon tax has the capacity to decimate the industry and cause a wave of ‘green unemployment’.

“The carbon tax is intended to save one job, Julia Gillard’s job, at the expense of those of thousands of hard working Australians, including in the car industry,” concluded Mrs Mirabella.