Canberra's retirement and aged care operators would be hit with a tax of up to $20,000 a bed by the ACT Government if the recommendations of a Treasury-ordered report are adopted. Recommendations are for a charge of $40,000 to allow each retirement village unit to be built, $20,000 for a new nursing home bed, and $10,000 each for new child-care places.
Government Policy
The three aged care bombshells from Senate Estimates
Last week’s Senate Estimates hearing – held just three weeks before sweeping reforms roll out – gave politicians the chance to ask Government heavyweights the questions they’re getting from constituents and to interrogate the once-in-a-generation changes.
