Gippsland East electorate
Tim BULL (Gippsland East) (14:44): (582) My constituency question is to the Treasurer, and the information I seek on behalf of my constituents is whether the Treasurer has plans to review the unfair land tax. It is unfair on many fronts, but I will give you just two examples. I have one resident of Bullumwaal, a pensioner, who has his driveway providing access to his home on a separate title. He has now been issued with land tax on the driveway parcel of his land due to the lower threshold. This is entirely unfair. He cannot sell that parcel because he needs access to his home, but he has got no money to pay the land tax. Then we have another pensioner, who bought an adjoining block to his home some years ago when he was working. He bought it cheap from the government as it was surplus. Now a pensioner, he has also been caught by the lower threshold and has to pay but cannot afford to do so, so he is being forced to move. Treasurer, you need to review this unfair tax.