Michael Sukkar: JobKeeper transparency “outrageous”

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Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar has labelled calls to disclose big business recipients of JobKeeper “outrageous”:

Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar says inserting a clawback provision in the JobKeeper program would have “risked Australian jobs”, as he declares Labor’s attempt to reveal recipients of the wage subsidy “outrageous”.

An ongoing scrap between Labor and the Coalition emerged after Independent senator Rex Patrick introduced legislation in the upper house requiring the Australian Taxation Office to hand over documents with a list of companies who received JobKeeper payments…

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.