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Keep GST on fuel: Bligh

27 May, 2008 02:43 PM
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh says she will not support any changes to the GST on petrol that take away revenue from the states.

The Rudd government is considering removing the GST on fuel excise as part of its wide-ranging taxation review.

The move would save motorists around four cents per litre.

Ms Bligh said it was too early to say whether the review would bring relief at the bowser.

"What I will be looking to see achieved is a fair tax system but one that doesn't jeopardise state revenue," Ms Bligh told reporters in Brisbane today.

"Any changes to the tax arrangements to this country should be fair ... to the individual taxpayer without any decrease that would affect state revenues.

"I don't think the public wants to see our schools and our hospitals short-changed either."Ms Bligh said her government would respond to a recent independent report into petrol prices in Queensland in the "very near future".

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Of course the premiers would object.... The only time that I found myself agreeing with Paul Keating is when he said "Never stand between the Premiers and a bag of money, they'll run you over"!!!!

It's amazing that a Labor Premier would be more concerned with what she can pocket, obviously she had to mention schools and hospitals, not that any of them has done anything about them, I always tought that fuel taxes were for roads and with the ludicrous amount that they raise it's a wonder why our roads in the country are such a death trap!!!!!!!

Posted by Peter, 30/05/2008 6:48:14 AM

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