Re: Melbourne - Fare Increase

[Chris Gordon <cmgord@VICSIG.alphalink.com.au>]

> What are you on about? Since when has public transport been classified
> differently to anything else, there is no split in the percentage of GST
> payable, it was straight 10% from July 1st to advoid confusion (heh, nice
> try)

Sorry you are wrong.  See the other postings and I will dig out the
media release from June about the GST increase (5% on 1/7/00 and 5%
1/1/01).  

> > > Flippin' heck, and we just had the GST rise.
> >
> > This is the second installment of the GST
> > (5% on 1 July 2000 and another 5% on 1 Jan 2001, and also a 2.6% CPI
> > increase on 1 Jan 2001)
> >
> > So this increase is 7-8%


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