| Problems with the Victorian Fire Services Funding Review | |
| Date: | Date: 2.11.2009 |
| Source: | NIBA media release |
| Insurance brokers condemn latest tax hike | |
| Date: | Date: 11.08.2009 |
| Source: | NIBA media release |
| Victorian farmers attack insurance taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 13.07.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| The bushfire story no one's doing | |
| Date: | Date: 7.07.2009 |
| Source: | theage.com.au/business |
| Letter to the Editor | |
| Date: | Date: 6.07.2009 |
| Source: | Company Director |
| NSW Opposition attacks SES levy | |
| Date: | Date: 29.06.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Shift stamp duty into other taxes, says WA | |
| Date: | Date: 15.06.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Controversial and unfair state Fire Services Levy must be fixed | |
| Date: | Date: 15.06.2009 |
| Source: | Country News |
| Insurance tax could go, says Queensland | |
| Date: | Date: 9.06.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Fire Services Levy increases shameful | |
| Date: | Date: 2.06.2009 |
| Source: | The Nationals |
| Hosed down. New taxes inflame non-insurance debate | |
| Date: | Date: 1.06.2009 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Report: Victoria has the world's highest level of insurance taxes! | |
| Date: | Date: 1.06.2009 |
| Source: | Frankston Times |
| NIBA's campaign against unfair taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 1.06.2009 |
| Source: | Marsh News |
| The underinsurance debate rolls on | |
| Date: | Date: 1.06.2009 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Bushfires, share jitters could spark insurance premium rises | |
| Date: | Date: 28.05.2009 |
| Source: | Heraldsun.com.au |
| Opposition says Victoria's fire levy must go | |
| Date: | Date: 25.05.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Proposed Review of Fire Services Levy in Victoria Welcomed | |
| Date: | Date: 22.05.2009 |
| Source: | Insurance Council of Australia - Media Release |
| Push to change CFA funding | |
| Date: | Date: 22.05.2009 |
| Source: | ABC News |
| Coalition would make fire funding fairer | |
| Date: | Date: 22.05.2009 |
| Source: | Liberal Nationals Media Release |
| NIBA condemns latest round of increases to the fire services levy | |
| Date: | Date: 20.05.2009 |
| Source: | Money Management |
| NIBA condemns dollar-for-dollar insurance taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 19.05.2009 |
| Source: | NIBA Media Release |
| Rises in fire levy rates rile industry | |
| Date: | Date: 18.05.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| State governments continue to gouge insurance-buyers | |
| Date: | Date: 18.05.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Brokers state their case against taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 15.05.2009 |
| Source: | NIBA Media Release |
| Fire service levy sparks outrage | |
| Date: | Date: 13.05.2009 |
| Source: | Merimbula News Weekly |
| Insurers ponder $215 million Vic emergency services boost | |
| Date: | Date: 11.05.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Victorians face extra $45m fire services tax | |
| Date: | Date: 4.05.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Push for user pays fire services to eradicate inequity | |
| Date: | Date: 29.04.2009 |
| Source: | Merimbula News Weekly |
| Uninsured may have died defending homes from bushfires | |
| Date: | Date: 27.04.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Disasters highlight need to fix tax system | |
| Date: | Date: 18.04.2009 |
| Source: | The Financial Review |
| ICA, NIBA maintain tax argument | |
| Date: | Date: 8.04.2009 |
| Source: | Cover Note |
| One for the ordinary Australian | |
| Date: | Date: 1.04.2009 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Insurance taxes discouraging, says Lloyd's chief | |
| Date: | Date: 16.03.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Insurance taxes too high | |
| Date: | Date: 16.03.2009 |
| Source: | Financial Standard |
| Govt urged to axe fire levy | |
| Date: | Date: 16.03.2009 |
| Source: | ABC News |
| Spiralling fire services levy halted - for now | |
| Date: | Date: 9.03.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Insurance taxes should be slashed: NIBA | |
| Date: | Date: 3.03.2009 |
| Source: | Financial Standard |
| Bushfire underinsurance adds traction to non-insurance fight | |
| Date: | Date: 2.03.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Stop bailing out the irresponsible | |
| Date: | Date: 1.03.2009 |
| Source: | The Australian |
| VFF Says Fire Tax Must be Scrapped | |
| Date: | Date: 1.03.2009 |
| Source: | VFF Media Release |
| We sympathise with losses, but the fire insurance levy is unfair | |
| Date: | Date: 1.03.2009 |
| Source: | The Age |
| Fire funding belongs to the bucket brigade | |
| Date: | Date: 17.02.2009 |
| Source: | The Age Online |
| Bushfire underinsurance - a threat and maybe an opportunity | |
| Date: | Date: 16.02.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Fires wipe tax relief | |
| Date: | Date: 9.02.2009 |
| Source: | Business Spectator |
| Review of State Taxation Draft Report | |
| Date: | Date: 6.02.2009 |
| Source: | IPART |
| Address to the Insurance Council of Australia | |
| Date: | Date: 4.02.2009 |
| Source: | The Hon. Chris Pearce MP |
| Dollar-for-dollar insurance taxes almost a reality in Victoria | |
| Date: | Date: 2.02.2009 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Charge of the Fire Brigade | |
| Date: | Date: 1.02.2009 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Self-funded retirees slam the Victorian fire services levy | |
| Date: | Date: 1.02.2009 |
| Source: | AIR Media Release |
| NIBA campaign continues | |
| Date: | Date: 1.02.2009 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Tax treat | |
| Date: | Date: 1.02.2009 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Insurance tax reform would go to consumer pockets | |
| Date: | Date: 27.01.2009 |
| Source: | Business Spectator |
| Bush pays for CFA levy blow-out | |
| Date: | Date: 16.01.2009 |
| Source: | weeklytimes now |
| Fire Services Levy fury | |
| Date: | Date: 9.01.2009 |
| Source: | The Nationals |
| New insurance slug | |
| Date: | Date: 19.12.2008 |
| Source: | The Land |
| Insurance taxes in rural Victoria reach new high | |
| Date: | Date: 8.12.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| SES levy imposes $20 million IT bill on insurers | |
| Date: | Date: 8.12.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| General insurers 'tax collectors' | |
| Date: | Date: 8.12.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| World record taxes hit regional Victoria businesses | |
| Date: | Date: 8.12.2008 |
| Source: | NIBA Media Release |
| Say NO to further insurance taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 7.12.2008 |
| Source: | The Industry |
| Insurance companies forced to act as the taxman | |
| Date: | Date: 6.12.2008 |
| Source: | The Industry |
| NIBA Letter to Victorian Minister | |
| Date: | Date: 3.12.2008 |
| Source: | NIBA |
| Taxing Times | |
| Date: | Date: 1.12.2008 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Policyholders hit with an extra tax | |
| Date: | Date: 25.11.2008 |
| Source: | Daily Advertiser Wagga Wagga |
| Industry anger as NSW adds another levy | |
| Date: | Date: 17.11.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| The ugly offspring of the NSW mini-budget | |
| Date: | Date: 17.11.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Brokers slam 'cynical' new insurance tax | |
| Date: | Date: 12.11.2008 |
| Source: | NIBA Media Release |
| Emergency service reforms maintain frontline services | |
| Date: | Date: 11.11.2008 |
| Source: | NSW Government Media Release |
| NSW Mini-Budget = More Tax Pain for General Insurance Policyholders | |
| Date: | Date: 11.11.2008 |
| Source: | ICA Media Release |
| State's back-door tax slugs home and business owners | |
| Date: | Date: 2.11.2008 |
| Source: | City News |
| Sneaky $70 back-door tax on home owners | |
| Date: | Date: 28.10.2008 |
| Source: | City of Sydney |
| ICA calls for insurance tax cuts | |
| Date: | Date: 27.10.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| IPART recommends tax overhaul | |
| Date: | Date: 25.10.2008 |
| Source: | The Industry |
| NSW regulator wants fire services levy scrapped, stamp duty cut | |
| Date: | Date: 20.10.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Review of NSW Taxation | |
| Date: | Date: 17.10.2008 |
| Source: | IPART Media Release |
| Insurance Council Welcomes IPART Final Report | |
| Date: | Date: 17.10.2008 |
| Source: | ICA Media Release |
| NIBA attacks insurance tax | |
| Date: | Date: 13.10.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Review of State Taxation Final Report | |
| Date: | Date: 1.10.2008 |
| Source: | IPART |
| Review of Australian Future Tax System Submission | |
| Date: | Date: 1.10.2008 |
| Source: | ICA |
| FICA Launches State Tax Reform Report | |
| Date: | Date: 1.10.2008 |
| Source: | FICA Media Release |
| Bowen commits to withholding tax reform | |
| Date: | Date: 28.08.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Federal tax review calls for submissions | |
| Date: | Date: 25.08.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| NSW commits to review fire services levy | |
| Date: | Date: 25.08.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| State taxes help to fuel underinsurance | |
| Date: | Date: 21.08.2008 |
| Source: | Money Management |
| Bowen promises close scrutiny of insurance taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 18.08.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Treasury identifies insurance tax flaws ahead of federal review | |
| Date: | Date: 11.08.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| The FSL debate: points of view | |
| Date: | Date: 1.08.2008 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| All fired up: A Federal Government tax review is urged to consider the imposts on insurance | |
| Date: | Date: 1.08.2008 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| A Heavier Levy: Victoria bears the brunt of latest FSL hike | |
| Date: | Date: 1.08.2008 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Deep in the heart of taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 1.08.2008 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Taken IPART: NSW economic regulator calls for insurance tax cuts | |
| Date: | Date: 1.08.2008 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Review of State Taxation Submission | |
| Date: | Date: 10.07.2008 |
| Source: | IAG |
| Brokers give IPART strong support | |
| Date: | Date: 3.07.2008 |
| Source: | NIBA Media Release |
| Review of State Taxation AIG | |
| Date: | Date: 2.07.2008 |
| Source: | IPART |
| Another fire insurance tax hike unfair, say brokers | |
| Date: | Date: 1.07.2008 |
| Source: | NIBA Media Release |
| Biggest tax review in 50 years must cover insurance | |
| Date: | Date: 30.06.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Unions slam fire services levy | |
| Date: | Date: 23.06.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| IPART Recommendations on Insurance Tax | |
| Date: | Date: 12.06.2008 |
| Source: | IPART |
| IPART Recommends Overhaul of State Taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 12.06.2008 |
| Source: | IPART |
| Tax hike hits country Victorians hardest | |
| Date: | Date: 2.06.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Reform should stop states' $3.7 billion 'tax on tax' | |
| Date: | Date: 19.05.2008 |
| Source: | NIBA Media Release |
| Budget: insurers pin hopes on tax review | |
| Date: | Date: 19.05.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| 'Hard fight' on way over insurance taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 5.05.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Axed insurance tax will mean job gains: business group | |
| Date: | Date: 23.04.2008 |
| Source: | CBCnews.ca |
| Insurance tax dropped, rebates coming, Williams says | |
| Date: | Date: 22.04.2008 |
| Source: | CBCnews.ca |
| PM sticks to GST promise | |
| Date: | Date: 22.04.2008 |
| Source: | Sydney Morning Herald |
| Victorian Government rejects fire services levy appeal | |
| Date: | Date: 21.04.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Stamp duty: insurance premiums | |
| Date: | Date: 17.04.2008 |
| Source: | Victorian Legislative Council Hansard |
| Taxpayer digs deep for uninsured storm victims | |
| Date: | Date: 14.04.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| NIBA critical of Treasury | |
| Date: | Date: 10.04.2008 |
| Source: | Money Management |
| NSW postpones tax review | |
| Date: | Date: 17.03.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Banging heads against a taxation brick wall | |
| Date: | Date: 17.03.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Policy levies aggravate under-insurance: NIBA | |
| Date: | Date: 13.03.2008 |
| Source: | CoverNote |
| More tax hikes on insurance in Vic and NSW | |
| Date: | Date: 10.03.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| Brokers frustrated by more tax hikes | |
| Date: | Date: 6.03.2008 |
| Source: | NIBA Media Release |
| Rate hike threatens insurance demand | |
| Date: | Date: 11.02.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| ICA lobbies to axe tax on insurance | |
| Date: | Date: 4.02.2008 |
| Source: | insuranceNEWS.com.au |
| DOFIs and tax in NIBA sights: Brokers keep up the fight against regulation and imposts | |
| Date: | Date: 1.02.2008 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Brokers lobby on insurance tax: Call for action after hikes in fire services levy | |
| Date: | Date: 1.02.2008 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Insurers call on COAG for regulatory consistency | |
| Date: | Date: 21.12.2007 |
| Source: | Money Management |
| Insurance taxes battle continues | |
| Date: | Date: 12.12.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Fire levy hikes for NSW, rural Victoria | |
| Date: | Date: 11.12.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Insurers lobby to dump NSW taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 4.12.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| INVENT INNOVATE INSURE. Are insurers doing enough to make cover more affordable? | |
| Date: | Date: 1.12.2007 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Insurance taxes must be dumped: economist | |
| Date: | Date: 6.11.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| NSW begins tax review | |
| Date: | Date: 21.08.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Dutton backs insurance tax reform | |
| Date: | Date: 15.08.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Fighting fire with fire. The insurance industry scored an important win when the Victorian Government relented over changes to its fire services levy | |
| Date: | Date: 1.08.2007 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| New leader, same fire taxes mindset | |
| Date: | Date: 31.07.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Review of State Taxation Submission | |
| Date: | Date: 11.07.2007 |
| Source: | ICA |
| Brigades fire up over non-insurance | |
| Date: | Date: 10.07.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| FSL backdown 'victory for common sense' | |
| Date: | Date: 5.06.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Scrap insurance taxes: Costello | |
| Date: | Date: 5.06.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Menzies Research Lecture, Address to the State Policy Conference | |
| Date: | Date: 1.06.2007 |
| Source: | Hon. Peter Costello MP |
| Heated argument: The question of who should fund fire services is back on the agenda | |
| Date: | Date: 1.06.2007 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Bigger Levy: NZ DIGS IN Insurers and brokers battle a plan to extend New Zealand's fire and rescue levy | |
| Date: | Date: 1.06.2007 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Allianz welcomes Victorian Government decision to abandon increase in insurance taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 30.05.2007 |
| Source: | Allianz Australia Media Release |
| Brokers hail Victorian government tax backdown | |
| Date: | Date: 30.05.2007 |
| Source: | NIBA Media Release |
| Consumers blind to insurance taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 15.05.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| NZ insurers and brokers attack FSL extension plan | |
| Date: | Date: 1.05.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| NZ fire services levy 'outrage' | |
| Date: | Date: 24.04.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| DOFI tax payment doubt | |
| Date: | Date: 11.04.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| ABS Statistics - Highlight Taxation Burden on Insurance Products | |
| Date: | Date: 3.04.2007 |
| Source: | Insurance Council of Australia |
| Fire insurance taxes unfair | |
| Date: | Date: 22.03.2007 |
| Source: | BRW Letter of the Week |
| Airline stamp duty row erupts | |
| Date: | Date: 20.02.2007 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| TAX CRUSADER | |
| Date: | Date: 1.12.2006 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Victoria increase fire levy...again | |
| Date: | Date: 3.10.2006 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| NIBA defends ACT rates-based fire levy | |
| Date: | Date: 19.09.2006 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Bracks simmers as fire levy debate warms up | |
| Date: | Date: 15.09.2006 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Canberra ill-prepared for bushfires | |
| Date: | Date: 12.09.2006 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Attack on Tax. The case against multiple insurance taxes is growing, and now is the time for brokers to get involved | |
| Date: | Date: 1.08.2006 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Minister attacks insurers on FSL | |
| Date: | Date: 1.08.2006 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Tax fight takes centre stage in rural NSW | |
| Date: | Date: 1.08.2006 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| NSW opposition gets on FSL bandwagon | |
| Date: | Date: 11.07.2006 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Industry shares Costello's one-system dream | |
| Date: | Date: 4.07.2006 |
| Source: | Sunrise Exchange News |
| Terrorism levy adds to the costs | |
| Date: | Date: 1.07.2006 |
| Source: | NIBA Backgrounder |
| Tax battle goes public | |
| Date: | Date: 1.06.2006 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Greedy states won't forgo stamp duty on insurance | |
| Date: | Date: 19.04.2006 |
| Source: | Sydney Morning Herald |
| An election in the air… | |
| Date: | Date: 1.04.2006 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Paying through the home | |
| Date: | Date: 1.04.2006 |
| Source: | NIBA Backgrounder |
| The cost of country living…it all depends on where you live | |
| Date: | Date: 1.03.2006 |
| Source: | NIBA Backgrounder |
| Burning policyholders' pockets | |
| Date: | Date: 1.02.2006 |
| Source: | NIBA Backgrounder |
| A tax on a tax… | |
| Date: | Date: 1.01.2006 |
| Source: | NIBA Backgrounder |
| The state taxes quandary | |
| Date: | Date: 1.12.2005 |
| Source: | Walter Spratt |
| Taxing deductibles | |
| Date: | Date: 1.08.2005 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| The Fire Services Levy | |
| Date: | Date: 15.07.2005 |
| Source: | Chris Berg |
| Tax attack | |
| Date: | Date: 1.02.2005 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Tax attack | |
| Date: | Date: 1.06.2003 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Fire Services Funding Review Submission | |
| Date: | Date: 1.12.2002 |
| Source: | Mildura Rural City Council |
| Tangled taxes | |
| Date: | Date: 1.10.2002 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Tax Attack Successes | |
| Date: | Date: 1.08.2002 |
| Source: | Insurance & Risk Professional |
| Taxes drain insurance premium pool | |
| Date: | Date: 29.05.2002 |
| Source: | Terry Dwyer |