Short Stay Levy Bill 2025 Submission

Anglicare Tasmania supports the introduction of a short stay levy.

Anglicare calls on the government to directly target the benefits to Tasmanians least able to afford housing, better address the negative impacts of the short stay rental market on rental affordability, and avoid further escalating house prices by:
1. directing 100% of revenue from the levy to fund the construction of social housing and homelessness services
2. imposing a levy of 7.5%
3. ensuring that revenue from the levy does not assist the purchase of existing homes.