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used as the principal place of residence of an owner are freely available from the Fourth Commonwealth Grants Commission Report on ACT Financing. ABM statistics from the 1988 Housing Survey and 1988-89 Household Expenditure Survey are mainly unpublished statistics which were obtained by the ACT Treasury. These can be made available on request from the ACT Treasury.
3) Were any individuals and/or organisations consulted before
the land tax was publicly announced; if so
a) Which individuals and organisations were consulted;
There are very clear constraints on the consultative process in the development of tax policy. The Government has an obligation to ensure that the Territory revenue is protected from tax evasion and avoidance resulting from awareness of impending tax changes.
Within these constraints every effort was made to ensure that the Government was fully apprised of the implications arising from the proposed changes to land tax liability in the ACT. There was extensive internal Government consultation and with other state taxing authorities. Also there was limited exposure of the proposal outside Government agencies. However, given the sometimes limited information made available to nongovernment bodies I do not believe it would be fair to identify them individually. b) When did these consultations take place;
May-June 1991 c) What was the result of these consultations,
On the basis of the advice received the earlier proposals of the Alliance Government were modified before the Rates and Land Tax (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) 1991 was presented to the Assembly.
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