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22 November 2024
$10m fire services levy should fund CFA: Tilley

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.

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