Carter David: Motor Vehicle Sales Bill — Instruction to CommitteeCWH In Committee 
Carter David: Motor Vehicle Sales Bill — Instruction to CommitteeCWH In Committee 
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Hon DAVID CARTER (NZ National) 
: 
 I suspect that this is a sneaky piece of work by the Labour Government. I hoped to be able to stand up here and support the title. 
David Benson-Pope 
: Speaking of sneaky where is the numbers man? 
Hon DAVID CARTER 
: Does that member want to take a call? If he does I will cede and let him have a call then start when he is ready. 
Before being interrupted by Mr Benson-Pope I was saying that I was hopeful of standing in the Committee tonight and being able to support the title of this bill. At first glance it actually is a fair prescription of what this legislation attempts to do. But as my colleagues Simon Power and Deborah Coddington pointed out sneaky little Supplementary Order Paper 30 has been tabled. 
Hon Rick Barker 
: Why isn’t the rest of the National Party here? 
Hon DAVID CARTER 
: Rick Barker clearly does not even know that it has been tabled. He would not be worried about compliance costs; he would not know what compliance costs were. 
This sneaky little Supplementary Order Paper dramatically changes the tone of the bill and talks about regulations to impose a levy. Even Mr Benson-Pope knows that is another word for tax. Mr Benson-Pope has just spelt the word levy and he got that right. He should now have a go at spelling the word tax. He could not manage that one but it is “t-a-x.” Deborah Coddington had it right—this legislation is no longer appropriately named at all. It should no longer be called the Motor Vehicle Sales Bill but the “Motor Vehicle Dealers Regulation and Taxation Bill”. That is what this bill proposes to do. There was no mention of a levy before the bill went through the select committee process. The Government was too sneaky to do that. 
David Benson-Pope 
: That is uncharitable. 
Hon DAVID CARTER 
: It is not uncharitable; it is a fact. If Mr Benson-Pope is so proud of loading another tax on to a very entrepreneurial sector of the New Zealand business community put it in the principle legislation give it an appropriate name and let people make submissions. But no he would not do it that way. Mr Benson-Pope is wrong when he argues that we should be calling this legislation the Motor Vehicle Sales Bill. That no longer adequately describes it and Mr Maharey knows that. Therefore I now completely support Deborah Coddington’s superb work in pointing out that this is no longer a bill just to facilitate the sales of motor vehicles; it is now a bill about how to levy another tax on a particular industry. That means that we have a duty in the Committee stage to give this legislation an appropriate title. 
I note that Mr Chairman agrees with that. He acknowledges that we have a duty to make sure that at this stage of the proceedings we give this legislation an appropriate title. I say to you Mr Chairman— 
The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson) 
: The member cannot bring the Chairman into the debate. 
Hon DAVID CARTER 
: The title of the bill is no longer appropriate at all. We need to make sure that the name is changed so that people know that although this legislation talks about facilitating the sales of motor vehicles it also talks about imposing yet another tax and compliance cost on an industry— 
Sandra Goudie 
: What about the compliance cost reports? 
Hon DAVID CARTER 
: The Minister can take a call and tell us whether he has done any work on compliance cost but he will not have done. That is the sort of thing one talks about when in Opposition. It is the “Maharey principle”. 
The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson) 
: The member must use a member’s full name and title. 
Hon DAVID CARTER 
: I have been talking to the title of the Motor Vehicle Sales Bill. 
The CHAIRPERSON (H V Ross Robertson) 
: If the member wishes to address another member in Committee he must use that member’s full name and title. 
Hon DAVID CARTER 
: I was not talking about the Minister. I was talking about the “Maharey principle”.