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Dunne: Local Govt Forum is ACT in drag
Dunne: Local Govt Forum is ACT in drag
The Local Government Forum still does not get it, United Future leader Peter Dunne said today. United Future's plan to take the GST off rates is about helping low and fixed income property owners hit by high property rates because of the explosion in property values, he said.
"The aim is to cut the costs that ratepayers bear now," Mr Dunne said. "This is not a theoretical argument about how to design a tax system as the Local Government Forum seems fixated upon - but much more about doing something positive for suffering ratepayers. "It's time the forum and its associates stopped seeing everything through its ACT cheerleader prism, and spent a moment or two looking at things from the standpoint of those struggling now with mounting rates bills because of rising property values.
"We need to see the forum put practical
solutions ahead of ACT ideology," Mr Dunne said.
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