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Premier Anna Bligh must explain how an alleged fraud of $16 million from Queensland Health occurred despite the Auditor-General warning months ago of risks from lax financial controls across government, the State Opposition said today.
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If you started reading the regulations today, you would still be struggling through the pile of documents in April next year, and that's reading non-stop!*
Queensland's overbearing regulation is hurting our economy with businesses slugged $7 billion in taxes and charges - a 30% increase over the past five years. Meanwhile time-wasting paperwork is driving up costs for consumers.
The LNP knows that Queenslanders would rather get on with doing business than wasting time and money on paperwork - that's why Campbell Newman is asking you to nominate the red tape you hate the most.
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Source: Courier Mail 5 December 2011.
A MUCH-hyped email system which cost taxpayers $46 million has been rejected by most State Government departments. Trumpeted as a revolutionary way to centralise systems allowing workers to more easily move between agencies, the email platform was rejected as too costly by some of the departments it was specifically designed for.
So far only 2000 users have signed up, at an estimated cost of $23,000 each – the price of a small car.
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Source: Courier Mail 8/11/2011
QUEENSLAND small businesses are being slugged $7 billion in taxes, fees and other charges annually with the cost of State Government red tape increasing more than 30 per cent over the past five years. Struggling family businesses have labelled Queensland the "nanny state" as they are forced to plough through more than 90,000 pages of regulation governing the sector.
A large slice of operators blame burgeoning paperwork and the extra cost of taxes and levies for halting growth and investment.
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