As a key pillar of our commitment to reduce the cost of living for families, a Canberra Liberals Government will freeze rates for four years.

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That means that your rates will not go up from our first budget and throughout our first term in office. If we can continue this beyond 2024, we will.

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Our rates freeze will provide relief to Canberrans and bring back predictability and security to household budgets.

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Under Labor and the Greens, rates have tripled since 2012, and the services you rely on aren’t improving. 

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In June 2019, the Labor-Greens government announced yet another massive rates increase. In the next 12 months:

Rates for houses increase by 7%,
Rates for unit titled properties increase by 11%, and
Land tax increases by 7%.

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A rates freeze is a big saving to Canberrans, but only a fraction of the government’s budget.

99.5% of the budget will remain to pay for the services Canberrans expect.

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There is a better way.