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RATES AND LAND TAX (AMENDMENT) BILL 1993

Debate resumed.

MS FOLLETT: To those members who may have been concerned about the sliding scale of land taxes being passed on to small business in those big centres, I would say that they ought to draw to attention the fact that the liability of those major centres has actually fallen. So there can be no justification whatsoever for passing on an increase on the basis of rates and land tax. Madam Speaker, if you take that decline of 1.3 per cent and add inflation to it, it actually represents a decline in real terms of over 6 per cent. I think you really need to have the full picture there.

Madam Speaker, I commend the Bill to members. I repeat what I said earlier - that 93 per cent of residential properties still fall under the $100,000 valuation; and, of course, owner occupied residential properties are still exempt from land tax.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.

Question put:

That this Bill be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 15  NOES, 1 

Mr Berry Mr Stevenson
Mrs Carnell
Mr Connolly
Mr Cornwell
Mr De Domenico
Ms Ellis
Ms Follett
Mr Humphries
Mr Kaine
Mr Lamont
Ms McRae
Mr Moore
Ms Szuty
Mr Westende
Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to.

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