Rates and taxes will increase

All landholders on the Central Coast have just received their new land valuations, which appear to have increased by about 55 per cent on the last valuation of 2000.

Our Premier is on holidays in New Zealand, but what a bonus for the State Government and of course Gosford Council, as all our rates and taxes will now increase.

However Mr Carr will claim "we have not altered the base rate for taxing".

This is right, but he does not have to, as the land valuation has increased his revenue by 55 per cent on last year's tax rate.

We all need to object, and ask for lower tax rates from both the Gosford Council and the State Government, before we are taxed out of our homes.

David Walker, Killcare