Council rates review: farmers tell Bendigo forum an outdated rates system is unfair

Tom O'Callaghan
Updated September 6 2019 - 9:22pm, first published 1:30pm
STRETCHING: Farmers have told a ministerial review they are being hit hard by rate rises and that the system needs to be overhauled.
STRETCHING: Farmers have told a ministerial review they are being hit hard by rate rises and that the system needs to be overhauled.

A FARMER in Goornong had a 27 per cent rate increase last year and regularly hears from others grappling with a system he says is better suited to the 19th century.

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Tom O'Callaghan

Tom O'Callaghan

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