ACT landlords are being advised to hold off paying their land tax, after the Leader of the Opposition, Trevor Kaine, called yesterday for quarterly payments of the tax.
Mr Kaine said some people would have to appeal to welfare agencies for food assistance until they recovered from the August one-hit payment of the tax. Most payments are as higher than $1000.
Mr Kaine said many people, mainly older people, had complained about hardship of paying the tax in one hit by August 15 on pain of a 20 per cent penalty. And it came when the first rates instalment was due.
“”The Government allows rates to be paid in instalments,” he said “”Why can’t the land tax not be payable in the same manner?”
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