Dominic Perrottet accused of using ‘accounting trick’ to deliver budget surplus
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Parliamentary inquiry says an asset holding company used to run NSW transport off the books' must be scrapped
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A NSW government-owned transport assets holding company should be shut down to ensure taxpayers do not pay billions to keep it operating, a parliamentary committee says.
The state's premier, Dominic Perrottet, has been accused by the committee's chair of using an accounting trick" to try to deliver a budget surplus when he was treasurer by moving the state's transport assets to a separate commercial company.
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