The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Queensland (CCIQ) said on Tuesday that the government failed on its effort to check the state's deteriorating red tape incidence as it cited that bureaucratic burden further ballooned with the introduction of more legislations in the past financial year.

CCIQ president David Goodwin said that a total of 7900 pages of new and amended legislation breezed through the parliament in fiscal 2010, which he claimed resulted into red tape bottlenecks that wasted some $6.5 billion that could have benefitted the economy.

Mr Goodwin said that the 13 percent increase in bureaucratic maze that business had to deal with over the last year posed a major threat to business growths as he challenged the state government to test the current environment and see for themselves if government regulations were conducive to fiscal advancement.

He said that business leaders are now looking at the government to really engage with business and the invitation is open for "Premier Anna Bligh and Treasurer Andrew Fraser to come out and spend a day in a businessman's shoes dealing with these new regulations."

Ms Bligh, however, countered that the regulations being enforced by her government were necessary to protect Queensland consumers and its environment as she stressed that the state government "works very hard to make sure that we get businesses to a position where they can get on with their job."

The Premier called into attention the red tape reductions that her government has instituted during the past few years, which she claimed led to locally-focused and federal-initiated reforms.

Ms Bligh returned the challenge thrown at her by the CCIQ by saying that "if they have got any regulations that they think we should look at I'd be happy to hear from them."