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SEWERAGE RATES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (11.29): Mr Speaker, I present the Sewerage Rates (Amendment) Bill 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
The Sewerage Rates (Amendment) Bill 1991 forms part of a package with the Electricity and Water (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1991 and the Water Rates (Amendment) Bill 1991. This Bill enables the determination of sewerage rates by the ACT Electricity and Water Authority in advance, to come into effect on 1 July of each financial year. This will streamline existing procedures which cause delays in setting sewerage rates each year and which are a carryover from the days when sewerage rates were set as part of the Commonwealth budget. I present the explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Kaine) adjourned.
RATES AND LAND TAX (AMENDMENT) BILL (No. 3) 1991
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (11.30): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to present the Rates and Land Tax (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) 1991.
Leave granted.
MS FOLLETT: I thank members. I present the Rates and Land Tax (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Mr Speaker, this Bill proposes amendments to the Rates and Land Tax Act 1926. The Rates and Land Tax Act provides for the imposition of municipal rates and land tax in the Australian Capital Territory. The Government is proposing to amend the Act to expand the land tax base to incorporate residential land which is not used as the principal place of residence of an owner.
Land is currently taxed according to the purpose for which the lease was granted, with land used for residential purposes and primary production specifically exempted. All States tax residential properties but, with the exception of Victoria, exempt the principal place of residence.
The move by the ACT to do likewise and broaden the land tax base will overcome a revenue raising anomaly identified by the Grants Commission in its fourth report on finance in the ACT. The Commission identified that ACT land tax
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