Labor has unveiled a Robin Hood-style plan to hike taxes on wealthy landowners, luxury car buyers and interstate online gambling companies to keep a lid on Queensland’s nation-leading state debt.
Treasurer Curtis Pitt released Labor’s election costings on Thursday two days before the election insisting the “new revenue measures” would hit only a well-heeled “less than 1 per cent of taxpayers”.
The tax hikes on large land holdings, luxury cars, property purchases by foreign buyers, and the new online wagering consumption tax would deliver about $491 million to state coffers over three years.
Mr Pitt said this and other steps by Labor would keep total sta…
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