MEMBER for Benambra Bill Tilley says Labor’s increased fire service property levy will strip $2.7 million from Indigo ratepayers with little or no return to CFA firefighters.
In the next 12 months ratepayers in Wodonga ($5.5m), Towong ($1.8M) and Indigo ($2.7m) will fork out an extra 23 per cent on the tax that is supposed to fund fire services.
Farmers are hit hardest by the latest tax hike – t...