Cattle levy revamp floated

Marian Macdonald
Updated September 6 2019 - 7:06am, first published August 26 2019 - 12:00pm
TIME FOR CHANGE: MLX analyst Simon Quilty suggests replacing the cattle levy's flat $5-a-head fee with one that takes a percentage of the value of the sale up to a certain limit would be more equitable.
TIME FOR CHANGE: MLX analyst Simon Quilty suggests replacing the cattle levy's flat $5-a-head fee with one that takes a percentage of the value of the sale up to a certain limit would be more equitable.

The flat $5 cattle transaction levy would go the way of the dinosaurs under a new proposal that found favour at the East Gippsland Beef Conference and has been welcomed by both the Cattle Council of Australia and the Agriculture Minister.

Marian Macdonald

Marian Macdonald

National rural property writer

Writing for farmers in the Stock & Land, The Land, Queensland Country Life, Stock Journal and FarmWeekly, farming in Gippsland.

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