Although there were no specific benefits for Dubbo in the 2019 Federal Budget one local small business owner will take advantage of one aspect of it.
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Linh Nguyen of Dubbo's Lotus Cafe is happy about the increase to the Instant Asset Write-Off from $25,000 to $30,000.
"Why wouldn't small businesses use it?" she said. "It's a great incentive to invest back into your business.
"Rather than wait for an item to depreciate this gives us a tax benefit straight away, we will look at purchasing something that would improve the business; we are always looking to build our business."
Member for Parkes Mark Coulton said the scheme allows for multiple purchases.
"Tradies could buy tool boxes, hairdressers could buy hair dryers, and coffee shops could buy coffee machines," he said.
"The scheme benefits those businesses instantly writing off the asset, but it also benefits the people they buy items from because most people would seek to buy those things locally."
Mr Coulton acknowledged the budget was an election document.
"I think this budget is the one we've come to due making some hard decisions over the years," he said. "By the time we get to the election, there will be a clear distinction between our ideas and those of our opponents.
"These people sitting in the cheap seats throwing rocks from third-party positions need to realise federal politics isn't a place for small minded people, we have a vision for the country and policies and they don't."
Mr Coulton said people in his electorate would also reap the rewards of two more rounds of the Mobile Black Spot Program and a one-off $75 Energy Assistance Payment for singles eligible for certain qualifying payments.
Labor's Joel Fitzgibbon said the 2019 LNP budget was a con voters would see through come election day.
"The con extends into the agriculture portfolio, it has stuck with the same old tricks: money stolen from other areas of regional investment, more concessional loans and big headlines about the capital value of those loans, most of which will never be allocated," he said.
St Vincent de Paul Society National President Claire Victory said the Budget ignores the plight of disadvantaged Australians.
"It fails to address the soaring costs of basic housing and below-poverty-level income support payments. We worry about what appears to be an ongoing meanness in the context of personal responsibility," she said.