This week the WA Legislative Council approved the introduction of three month limits to recurrent charges (weekly fees) after a resident leaves a village for all new contracts and six months for existing contracts. This is the most aggressive impost on operators nationally; in NSW its nine months for instance. So an operator with ten vacant ILUs at $100 per week will be paying $1,000 per week subsidy to village operations. Historically other states follow new consumer affairs initiatives such as this. The legislation still has to pass the WA Lower House, expected by Christmas.
ATO plans to charge GST on manufactured home parks scrapped
A concerted effort by the Residents Association of manufactured home parks has headed off the ATO which had planned to impose GST in mobile homes. This would have added 10% to the cost of the purchase of a home