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TREASURER FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
Question No. 1123
Taxes and Charges Changes : ACTION Subsidy
MR MOORE - Asked the Treasurer upon notice on 9 December 1993:
(1) What increases and decreases in each of the taxes and charges levied by the Government and its controlled business and other entities have occurred since the second Follett Government took office.
(2) What is the average weekly cost of losses sustained by ACTION in each of the last three financial years, together with the estimated weekly losses in the current financial year expressed in terms of the average individual ratepayer.
(3) Will the Government, in the interests of open government and fiscal discipline, establish and periodically update (e.g. quarterly) an index of taxes and charges imposed by it and its controlled business and other entities; if not, why not.
TREASURER - The answer to the Member's question is as follows:
(1) A list of all taxes is set out in Attachment A. Any changes in tax rates which have occurred have been individually highlighted. With respect to other charges, I do not propose to list them individually as there are over 300 fees/charges spread across all Government programs and statutory/trading authorities. Such information is available in budget papers and annual reports of relevant agencies.
(2) The extent of ACTION's 'losses' over the last three years is set out in Attachment B. The identified 'losses' referred to in the Member's question have been defined as the actual recurrent subsidy paid to the ACT Transport Trust Account from the Consolidated Fund in each of the financial years, as well as the estimated subsidy for 1993-94. These amounts have been sourced from the relevant budget papers.
The number of ratepayers identified in the Attachment is based on the number of assessment notices for rateable properties sent to ratepayers in each year, including Housing Trust properties.
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