I’m proud to announce the Greens’ third stage of budget repair measures, which will bring in another $380 million. In the balance of power, the Greens will fight to ensure that property developers and the pokies barons pay their fair share.
Tasmania’s budget is in a mess after a decade of the Liberals. Despite expert warnings, the Liberals have been letting their corporate mates profit off Tasmanians.
Meanwhile, essential services like health and education have gone underfunded. It’s resulted in worse results for Tasmanians. But the Greens have a plan to clean up the mess.
With a new government and in the balance of power, the Greens will make the corporations pay their fair share. We’ll stop the pokies barons being the least taxed of their Australian counterparts, raising the rate for Electronic Gaming Machines to 45%.
Our plan includes introducing a 75% tax on property speculators who make windfall profit simply because land is rezoned. We’ll also establish a 1% levy on vacant properties – except for legitimate uses, like shacks.
The Greens understand that the budget needs to be back in a better place so we can ensure basic services can be properly funded for Tasmanians. To date in the campaign, we’ve now announced revenue of $882 million and $362 million in savings – plus we’d scrap the billion-dollar stadium. And we still have more to announce.
The Greens have been transparent with Tasmanians and published all policy costings, unlike Labor and the Liberals. Labor have no published costings, while the Liberal’s six policies they’ve told Tasmanians won’t cost anything, Treasury says will cost almost $800,000.
In the balance of power, the Greens will take the steps the major parties won’t to get the budget back on track.
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