Lib MP slams senators over tax inquiry

A Liberal backbencher has likened two senators to the horseman of the Apocalypse over their pursuit of multinational companies.

As a Senate committee prepares to hear a second day of evidence to its inquiry examining corporate tax avoidance, Alex Hawke took a swipe at Greens leader Christine Milne and Labor's Sam Dastyari over the their "mad push" to abandon confidentiality of tax returns.

They were like two of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he told Sky News on Thursday: "Famine and Death."