The Liberal Party needs to stop telling porkies about Labors reforms to dividend imputation reforms.

Weve seen clear examples in Tasmania and in the electorate of Gilmore and elsewhere of Liberal MPs pushing lies on Labors tax reforms.

Senator Bushby has used taxpayer funds on a direct mail-out letter that appeared in mailboxes this week that includes the following statements:

This would mean if you receive the pensionyou will no longer get a refund for tax already paid on your shares.

WRONG The Pensioner Guarantee means that Labor is protecting pensioners from changes to excess dividend imputation credits.

will be forced to pay tax twice

WRONG Theres no new tax, its the abolition of excess imputation credits for those who are paying zero income tax.

This would hurt 230,000 pensioners.

WRONG A blatant lie. Pensioners with individual shareholdings are protected under the dividend imputation reforms.

The Member for Gilmore has letterboxed households in her electorate making similar claims as Senator Bushby, but also arguing that:

This Labor plan would hurt 230,000 pensioners and there are more than 10,000 pensioners in Gilmore.

WRONG A blatant lie. Ms Sudmalis is obviously embarrassed about the Turnbull Governments attacks on the Age Pension and botched handling of the 2016 Budget super tax changes that shes resorted to lying about Labors policies. She needs to apologise.

Its no surprise to see these lies pushed in local communities, because the Prime Minister himself has been prepared to push such nonsense in front of national media and the general public.

Just last week the Prime Minister was caught pushing the lie that war widows would not be protected by Labors Pensioner Guarantee.

The Prime Minister misled a war widow, the public and the Parliament.

Its time Malcolm Turnbull stopped telling lies about Labors policies and started telling the truth about his own.