A new report by Victoria's independent Budget watchdog has confirmed an additional 18 schools will be added to Labor's Schools Tax hit list by 2029.
In this year's Budget, the Labor Government introduced a new Schools Tax by stripping the longstanding payroll tax exemption for non-government schools with an income per student of more than $15,000.
Initially, the Labor Government listed 60 non-government schools as liable to pay this new tax until 2029, with new schools that exceed the income per student threshold to be added to the tax hit list each year.
In new analysis, the Parliament Budget Office has projected that per student income at an additional 18 non-government schools across metropolitan and regional Victoria will exceed the $15,000 threshold by 2029, and therefore these schools will be subjected to this new tax.
The addition of these 18 schools will raise a further $26.9 million from Labor's Schools Tax.
Several schools already subject to this new tax grab have lifted fees by almost $1,000, confirming the cost of this unfair and punitive tax will fall on parents and families at time they can least afford it.
Shadow Minister for Education, Jess Wilson, said: "Victorian parents who work hard and make sacrifices to send their children to a school of their choice are being punished for the incompetence of the Labor Government.
"Victoria is broke, and Labor's Schools Tax is nothing more than a desperate attempt to pay for this government's financial mismanagement and growing debt burden.
"This analysis confirms that Labor's hit list is only set to grow and that hundreds of additional families a year will be forced to pay Labor's tax on education.
"Labor's Schools Tax is an unfair and punitive tax on educational choice and opportunity and only a Liberals and Nationals Government will scrap it."
