Former Victorian Liberal MP Neil Angus has criticised the Labor government for introducing a new round of taxes targeting large businesses and landowners in the 2023-2024 state budget to repay COVID-19 debts. 
The new taxes are part of the measures introduced by the Victorian Labor government to address the $31.5 billion (US$20.9 billion) debt incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
The massive debt was the result of Labor’s pandemic policies, which plunged the capital city of Melbourne into the world’s longest lockdown and devastated local businesses.
Despite Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas saying the government’s COVID debt repayment plan would be a “responsible” one, large businesses and landowners appear to be the biggest losers under the tax reforms. …