Labor rips off small businesses with new tax

Queensland small businesses have been hit with a new waste tax in today’s State Labor Budget which will cost them and their customers $1.3 billion over the next four years. “It’s a cruel and crass tax that takes more than Labor is giving in any cash incentives to business,” Ms Simpson said. “The Budget papers…

Labor’s waste tax to hit home buyers

Queensland homeowners face a tax hike of up to $3000 on new houses under the State Labor Government’s money grab. On a visit to a Townsville building company Corinthian Constructions, LNP Shadow Minister for Small Business Fiona Simpson said the proposed State Labor waste tax and land tax hikes would hurt homeowners and tradies and…

Labor’s waste tax to hit Sunshine Coast businesses

Sunshine Coast businesses will be unfairly slugged by Annastacia Palaszczuk’s new waste tax and forced to pass costs onto customers. On a visit to a Sunshine Coast business today, LNP Shadow Treasurer Tim Mander and Local MP Fiona Simpson said the tax would push costs higher for businesses across Queensland. “Cafes and seafood businesses go…

Labor smashes small business with taxes

Liberal National Party Shadow Minister for Small Business Fiona Simpson says the Labor Government’s failure to model the impacts of its new taxes on small business is reckless. Ms Simpson asked Minister for Small Business Shannon Fentiman today whether she had insisted modelling of impacts on small business was done before signing off on new…