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Article: NSW: All eyes on stamp duty in tomorrow's NSW Budget
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- June 23, 2003
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NSW: All eyes on stamp duty in tomorrow's NSW Budget
By Jim Hanna, State Political Correspondent
SYDNEY, June 23 AAP - Revenue flooding in from stamp duty on home
purchases is shaping
up as the key issue in tomorrow's NSW Budget.
Treasurer Michael Egan has ruled out any cut to the rate of stamp
duty paid on home
purchases, despite calls from Opposition leader John Brogden for relief
in the face of
soaring property prices which have pushed up the amount of stamp duty
paid by homebuyers.
Mr Egan today accused Mr Brogden of hypocrisy, saying the coalition
went to the March
22 state election admitting it could not afford to cut stamp duty.
"Now he says ...