$12.8 million will be taken out of the Brimbank Community and sent straight to Spring St.
12.8million will be taken out of the Brimbank Community and sent straight to Spring St.
This is money that won’t be spent in the local community, it is all about patching up Jacinta Allans financial mismanagement and with Emergency Services Cuts to their budgets won’t go where it is desperately needed. Scrap the Tax!
Rally Against the Emergency Services Tax!
Save the date! This is yet another rally by the people for the people demanding that Premier Allan and Treasurer Symes scrap this wrongful and deceitful tax that they both came up with. Scamming the people, impacting the quality of life of our community as they have is just another reason that proves to the people these two are not worthy to represent Victorians and have no place in parliament. Scrap the Tax!
CFA Groups Target Allan. Scrap the Wrongful Tax Now!
The new Emergency Services Tax proposed by Jacinta Allan has sparked outrage across Victoria, and community groups are uniting to stand up for what’s right!
This tax not only affects our dedicated CFA volunteers but also impacts every single one of us!
Let’s come together to support our heroes and make our voices heard! Share your thoughts below and tag a friend who should be in the loop!
Warnambool Mayor Warns Ratepayers to Brace for Allan and Symes Wrongful Tax! A Totally Flawed Tax!
Warrnambool City Council mayor Ben Blain is warning ratepayers to brace themselves as the state government’s Emergency Services Volunteer Fund becomes reality.
“This is a flawed levy that nobody wants, and which councils would rather not be collecting,” Cr Blain said
Victorian’s Reject Allan Government’s Wrongful Emergency Services Tax!
Victorians have overwhelmingly voiced their opposition to the Allan government’s controversial new emergency services charge.
Anger grows over the State Government’s Wrongful Emergency Services Levy
This is not a tax on profit. This is a wrongful tax on your very existence. STUNG by a jump in this year’s council rates farmers, householders, businesses and CFA volunteers gathered at the Wonthaggi Workmen’s Club to voice their strong concerns over the State Government’s new emergency services tax.
Enough is Enough: Stand With Bass Coast
The Community of Bass Coast turn out to say Enough is Enough! – Scrap the unfair Tax!
People are Hurting! Massive Push to Get Jacinta Allan Rightfully Booted from Her Seat. Jaclyn Symes Must Also Go. Scrap Their Wrongful Emergency Services Levy Now!
Rural firefighting volunteers have launched a livestock donation drive to fund their campaign against Victoria’s emergency services tax, vowing to target Premier Allan’s seat. Jacinta and Treasurer Jaclyn Symes the buck stops with you and you must go! Scrap the Tax!
Rate Rises Hit Struggle Street – All Thanks to Jacinta Allan and Jaclyn Syme’s Wrongful Emergency Services Levy!
Bass Coast Residents have been left in Shock as they opened their Rates Notices last week!
Local Business owners are considering whether they can continue trading, as they are saying – Enough is Enough – Scrap the Tax!
Cuts to Emergency Services, $14million for bins? Is this where the new tax is going??
Using the good name of Emergency Service personnel to introduce this tax is duplicitous! Wasting the money on more Vic Alp waste and not funding emergency services putting lives of the community at risk is ludicrous!
14 million for bins? Is this where the new tax is going?? In a fair and honest society where Governments are of integrity and accountable to the people this rubbish (sic) would not happen!
Every Victorian will be impacted by Jacinta Allan’s and Jaclyn Symes New Tax.
Using the good name of Emergency Service personnel to introduce is duplicitous!
It is a Tax grab that does nothing for Emergency Services, it is being used to plug holes in a budget riddled with projects that are over budget – the money being stripped from local communities and sent straight to Spring St.
In fact there will be cuts to: FRV, CFA and SES.
Your Emergency Services Levy – Where’s it really going?
Rates notices have started appearing in letter boxes where Loddon Shire Rams home the message that they are being forced by the State Labor Government to collect the Emergency Services Levy. A wrongful ill thought through tax!
Seeing Red – Loddon Shire Disgust at Being Forced to Collect and Ill Thought Out and Wrongful Tax! Residents are being Forced to Pay up To 25% Higher Rates!
Rates notices have started appearing in letter boxes where Loddon Shire Rams home the message that they are being forced by the State Labor Government to collect the Emergency Services Levy. A wrongful ill thought through tax!
Rates are Arriving – Huge Shock at a Huge Wrongful and Ill Thought Through Tax! Scrap the Tax!
Victorians are receiving tax notices with their rates.
One homeowner in Mitchell Shire was hit with a $4,000 bill.
Next year the Government is putting it up again!
#scrapthetax
Treasurer Jaclyn Symes & Premier Jacinta Allan Here’s Reality. You Have Doubled Rates & Are Reducing Funding for Emergency Services. Lies & Lies!
Small businesses across Victoria are feeling the pinch from Jacinta Allan’s new Emergency Services Tax. #VictoriaBusinesses #CommunityFirst#scrapthetax
Treasurer Jaclyn Symes & Premier Jacinta Allan Deceiving Victorians as they up this Wrongful Tax that Won’t go to Emergency Services. Stop the Tax!
Former Emergency Services Minister and now Treasurer, Jaclyn Symes, lets the cat out of the bag.
The ‘Emergency Services’ Tax, introduced using the Good name of Emergency Services personnel, will be going up each year.
This tax will see every Victorian impacted to plug holes in the State Governments budget. Despite the increased tax, CUTS are forecast for FRV, CFA, SES and many other agencies.
It hits Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Primary Production, Public Benefit, and Vacant Land — yes, it impacts us ALL!- Scrap the Tax Rally!
Victorian Fire Services Levy – Unfair Tax on Everyone: Homes, Businesses, Farms, Public Land & More. Join us on September 19th Wonthaggi Workmen’s Club 7pm as we Stand Together to Stop the Tax!
Defend CFA Volunteers – Defend Farmers – Defend the Victorian Community – Scrap the Tax Rally!
Silent protect highlighting to Jacinta Ermacora MP who voted for the tax that the this levy/tax will not only cost the community money, it will cost lives! Stop the Tax!
We’re Not Going Away! This Levy/Tax Will not Only Cost Everyone Real Money – The Strategy That They Voted for Will Cost Lives!
Silent protect highlighting to Jacinta Ermacora MP who voted for the tax that the this levy/tax will not only cost the community money, it will cost lives! Stop the Tax!
Jacinta Allan’s new tax pushing residents further into the cost of living crisis?
Is Jacinta Allan’s new tax pushing residents further into the cost of living crisis? 🚨
La Trobe Councillor, Sharon Gibson, raises a crucial point: this tax could hit hard on families already struggling to make ends meet. With rising costs affecting our daily lives, we need to stand together and voice our concerns
City of Wodonga Want Action! Stop the Tax!
The City of Wodonga have requested that Jacinta Allan’s New Emergency Services ‘Tax’ be placed on the upcoming Municipal Association of Victoria Conference Agenda.
Well done to Wodonga Council for advocating strongly on behalf of their community, particularly noting the extra financial burden it will place on them.
This new tax impacts every single Victorian, yet despite its introduction Jacinta Allan has forecast CUTS to our Emergency Services this year, as per the Government Gazette of 30 May 2025.
Premier Jacinta Allan Dancing Around Reality! Rebate Rule Reality Bites!
Volunteers whose names are not on rate notices will not be able to claim the one of levy rebate. A rebate that has more deliberately made holes in it in order to cash up the in-debt government than a slice of Swiss cheese.
Are you ready for the new Emergency Services Tax hitting your mailbox?
Councils Continue the Fight against this Wrongful Tax!
Bev McArthur MP is a strong voice for regional Victoria and will be joining us in Bass on Tuesday 19 August. All welcome. I’ve personally hired the Kirrak Room at the Wonthaggi Workman’s Club, let’s fill it and make our concerns to government known (entry is free yet if you can spare a few dollars donation to help me towards costs would be greatly appreciated)..
Meeting starts at 7pm.
If you would like a meal (optional) please order at the bistro on your way in and it will be delivered to the Kirrak room.
South Gippsland Sentinel-Times
Yarra City Council ratepayers will be forced to cough up an extra $14.6 million this financial year and growing!
Yarra City Council ratepayers will be forced to cough up an extra $14.6 million this financial year to fund the Victorian government’s new Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund.
The council analysis, obtained by the Herald Sun, shows that homeowners and businesses will be hit hard by the new charge to be levied on properties across Victoria.
Maddocks Legal provided the attached advice to The Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) in relation to the ESVF!
Maddocks website states: ‘Maddocks advise more than 125 Victorian Government Departments and agencies and more than half of our people have worked in the Victorian Government themselves.’
Moratorium Now!
Cr Stuart King outlines Swan Hill Councils position on Jacinta Allan’s unfair Emergency Services Volunteer Fund. This tax will impact every single Victorian. Yet our Emergency Services will receive a Busget Cut this year!
Moratorium now!
Outright Betrayal – 20 Cents to Save a Life!
Outright Betrayal Only 20 cents from every tax dollar is reaching the CFA. Just five cents for the SES. Victoria’s frontline heroes deserve better. Find out why locals are calling it an “outright betrayal” — and what you can do to help.
Bendigo Council Takes a Stand Against the Obscene Emergency Services Levy!
Stop the Obscene Tax Grab! Bendigo Council fights back against unfair emergency services levy. Bendigo Council is leading the charge against Victoria’s Emergency Services Property Levy, which many see as an unfair financial burden on families and small businesses. Join the community effort to push back and demand a fairer system.
Our Firefighters Deserve Better: Exposing the Hidden CFA Budget Cuts!
Volunteer Firefighters Shortchanged: Budget Cuts & Tax Slammed
The VFBV has condemned Labor’s CFA budget cuts and new emergency services tax, calling it cruel and misleading. We’re fighting back to protect our volunteers, keep Victoria safe, and scrap this unjust, unfair emergency services tax.
Fighting for Our CFA Volunteers and Farming Families – Scrap the Tax!
We are standing with CFA Volunteers and Farmers!
Our rural heroes are being unfairly excluded from emergency services tax rebates due to a paperwork technicality. It’s time to support the next generation of CFA and VicSES volunteers—and the family farms they serve.
Communities Like Bass Coast Pay the Price as Unfair Tax Funnels Millions to Spring St – Scrap the Tax!
Bass Coast and other local communities are hit hard by a new ‘Emergency Services’ Tax—costing millions while emergency budgets are slashed. Learn how it affects you
The Tax That Could Break Our Farmers – Time to Take a Stand! – Scrap the Tax!
This New Tax Could Destroy Local Farming!
Watch farmer Scott Young break down how Jacinta Allan’s new tax could triple costs and push local producers to the brink. This isn’t just about numbers—it’s about families, food, and our future.
Watch the video to hear the truth from the front lines of our farms
Historic Meeting of Over 50 Councillors to Scrap the Tax!
History meeting of councils to call for the scrapping of the wrongful and ill thought out Emergency Services Levy. Stephen Jolly highlighted the importance of collaboration among local leaders to protect our communities from this unfair financial burden. Councillors are determined to make their voices heard and advocate for the rights of every Victorian.
MURRINDINDI SHIRE COUNCIL STRONGLY OPPOSES THE EMERGENCY SERVICES LEVY (AND WRONGFUL TAX)
Murrindindi Shire Council, strongly opposes the introduction of the emergency services levy. It stands alongside, farmers, community leaders, volunteers, fight fighters and council representatives from across Victoria calling out the unfair burden the tax places on Victorians
STEPPING UP THE FIGHT TO SCRAP THE WRONGFUL TAX
The city of greater Bendigo joined other councils at a summit organised to oppose the state governments emergency service fund. The fund has been labelled (Tax Grab) which local councils are being forced to collect. We must keep the pressure on to get this wrongful tax to be consigned to history.
Stronger Stance on Tax! Scrap this Tax Grab. Designed only to Pay Massive Debt from the Labor Government’s Horribly Bad Mismanagement of the Peoples Money Across all Areas of the Remit!
Cardinia Council have adopted a stronger stance against the new tax.
No matter how they try to spin it, the purpose of this tax is to plug black holes in the budget.
Jaclyn Symes & Jacinta Allan Short Change our Services!
Volunteers will receive LESS under Jacinta Allan’s Great Big New Tax.
No matter how they try to spin it, the purpose of this tax is to plug black holes in the budget.
#scrapthetax
Small Businesses in Victoria are already struggling, yet they will be paying 133 cents per $1000 CIV for Jacinta Allans new Tax!
Small Businesses in Victoria are already struggling, yet they will be paying 133 cents per $1000 CIV for Jacinta Allans new Tax.
This is a doubling of what was paid under the Fire Service Levy.
The good names of Emergency Service Personnel have been used to justify this tax, it is wrong and duplicitous.
Jacinta Allan is asking Victorians to pay an extra tax for services that were already funded, to cover up black holes in the Budget.
It’s not good enough, scrap the tax!
The Australian Property Developers Association is warning the that the Emergency Services and Volunteer Fund Tax will drive investment out of Victoria.
The Australian Property Developers Association is warning the that the Emergency Services and Volunteer Fund Tax will drive investment out of Victoria.
Victoria is already losing investment to other states in a trend that is ‘deeply concerning’.
The Herald Sun (Jul 21, 2025 )
Jaclyn Symes, Jacinta Allan your Tax is theft from the people of Victoria. A total Sham! CFA to get less than 20c in the Tax dollar!
Jaclyn Symes, Jacinta Allan the facts don’t lie. Your tax is theft from the people of Victoria! Less than ever. CFA to get less than 20c in the tax dollar. Stop the tax, it’s way past time for you both to go! Fail!
Jaclyn Symes and Jacinta Allan want every Victorian to pay twice for Emergency Services, whilst cutting their budgets!
Councils across Victoria continue to call on the Government to put a pause on the new so called Emergency Services Tax.
Firefighters, Farmers, Businesses and Householders are all saying, Moratorium now! We need a Public Inquiry.
When it comes to their pet projects, Billions can be found at the stroke of a pen.
But now Jaclyn Symes and Jacinta Allan want every Victorian to pay twice for Emergency Services, whilst cutting their budgets!
NAME & SHAME THE DISHONEST STATE GOVERNMENT! SCRAP THE DISHONEST TAX!
Rural Councils want to make sure all rate payers know exactly how much the dishonest Emergency Service Levy is costing them! The levy is a dishonest tax that the Government is forcing by legislation councils to collect against their will because they know the tax is wrongful! Scrap the Tax now!
The Community of Werribee turned out today to say, enough is enough. Scrap the Tax!
The community, firefighters, farmers, business folk and many others from Werribee today turned out in numbers to rally against the wrongful Emergency Services Levy. It is of note that the Local Member John Lister didnt even bother to show his face. Was he ordered not to attend by Premier Allen and Treasure Jacklyn Symes or, and perhaps as well does he simply not care about the terrible impact he and all sitting labor members has caused to the people of Werribee with the introduction of this wrongful and misleading tax! Stop the Tax!
Central Goldfields Reaffirms Opposition to the Wrongful Emergency Services Tax!
Central Goldfields Shire has reaffirmed its opposition to the State Governments Emergency Services Fund (Tax!)
Council is formally opposing the levy/tax!
Despite Jacinta Allan’s new $5 Billion ‘Emergency and Volunteers Services’ Tax – Funding Cuts have been forecast for Emergency Services!
The Victorian Labor Government is living a lie that will hurt all Victorian’s and Victoria in many ways. The Emergency Services Levy is not for Emergency Services, it’s a false cover in order to raise money to pay off debt and pocket more funds to waste from their horrible money management ways!
Campaspe Shire Council Like the Majority of Other Councils Pushes Back Against the Levy/Tax!
“There is solid evidence the Victorian Government has not thought through this wrongful Tax. The Campaspe Shire Council is United as One Against It”
Mayor Urges Treasurer Jaclyn Symes to Repeal Her Wrongful Tax!
Baw Baw Shire Councillor Danny Goss has called on the Treasurer Jacklyn Symes to repeat the controversial Emergency Services & Volunteer Fund Levy. Councillors have unanimously rejected the Levy!
Councils across Victoria continue to raise concerns with Jacinta Allan about the new Tax
Councils across Victoria continue to raise concerns with Jacinta Allan about the new Tax.
It’s time Jacinta Allan listened, implement an immediate moratorium and initiate a Public Inquiry.
This new tax will see millions ripped out of local communities to plug holes on budget blow outs.
“Maintain the Rage” at New State Tax!
Bass Coast Shire have joined with a Growing Number of Councils wanting the State Labor Government to Ditch their wrongful Emergency Services Tax
Open Letter from Ararat City Councillors to their community regardingring the New Tax.
Open Letter from Ararat City Councillors to their community regarding the New Tax.
The Weekly Times 25 June