Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund
Cindy McLEISH (Eildon) (10:11): If elected, the Liberals will scrap the tax and return to a simpler, fairer property services levy from what has been introduced as the Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund. We will ensure the SES, CFA and other emergency services are properly funded from the state budget, delivering real support, not via a new land tax. Our policy restores certainty and will cut tax for homes, farms and businesses and will relieve pressure on renters. Labor’s emergency services fund is not a genuine investment in emergency services, it is a massive land tax by stealth. Labor’s new fund grabs $3 billion over four years in extra tax on homes, farms and businesses. Farmers are hardest hit and face up to 150 per cent increases.