Page 2316 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 15 September 1992
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MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (10.17): The Government will again be opposing Mr Kaine's amendment. It is both costly and wasteful to provide these kinds of details.
Mr Humphries: They are all costly and wasteful, according to you.
Mr Kaine: Some little old lady is going to escape paying this tax.
MS FOLLETT: Madam Speaker, can you keep them quiet.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Members, I remind you of standing order 39.
MS FOLLETT: It is both costly and wasteful, I believe, to provide this magnitude of information when there is not the need to do so. Once a property has been declared liable or non-liable for land tax, and that follows the initial declaration application and so on, there is no change in the applicant's status until some fairly significant matters occur. They include the sale of the house or the applicant advising of a change in circumstances or where it is found that an exemption was fraudulently obtained. In those cases the declaration application forms are provided. An inquiry officer is available to assist with people's inquiries and, I am sure, does an excellent job. The brochure that is sent out with every rates notice will contain information about land tax liability. This will reinforce the Revenue Office's circulars and the media advertising that the Revenue Office carries out. We oppose the amendment. Again, it is put forward, I think, in a rather mischievous spirit.
Question put:
That the proposed new clause be inserted in the Bill (Mr Kaine's amendment).
The Assembly voted -
AYES, 7 NOES, 10
Mrs Carnell Mr Berry
Mr Cornwell Mr Connolly
Mr De Domenico Ms Ellis
Mr Humphries Ms Follett
Mr Kaine Mrs Grassby
Mr Stevenson Mr Lamont
Mr Westende Ms McRae
Mr Moore
Ms Szuty
Mr Wood
Question so resolved in the negative.
Remainder of Bill, by leave, taken as a whole, and agreed to.
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