Question Time

Land Tax

Mr MALINAUSKAS (Croydon—Leader of the Opposition) (14:07): My question is to the Premier—welcome back. Can the Premier explain the benefits of his land tax aggregation measure announced in last month's state budget?

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL (Dunstan—Premier) (14:08): I thank the Leader of the Opposition for this opportunity to clarify our position with regard to land tax. The specific question that he asked is in regard to aggregation and what the benefits of aggregation are. Let's be quite clear: what we are after is a reform to land tax here in South Australia. There are situations where people have the same—exactly the same, for example—land value. Some might hold it in a single entity or in a single property; some might hold it in multiple properties and have a completely different levied tax rate. We want to eliminate that anomaly that currently exists.

We ultimately want to drive towards lower land tax in South Australia. We made a commitment in the lead-up to the election to have lower taxes in South Australia. We demonstrated this to the people of South Australia while we were in opposition. We have demonstrated successively, in our first and second budgets, to lower tax in South Australia—

Members interjecting:

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —and that's exactly and precisely what we want to do. We want to take that burden from households, from families—

Mr Malinauskas: Tradies tax, bin tax.

The SPEAKER: Order!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —and from the productive component—

Mr Malinauskas: Outback tax.

The SPEAKER: Leader!

The Hon. S.S. MARSHALL: —of our economy here in South Australia. We do that because we genuinely want to continue to drive our economy in South Australia.

The SPEAKER: Before I call the Leader of the Opposition, I call the following members to order: the member for Mawson, the member for West Torrens, the Leader of the Opposition and the member for Waite. Leader.