THE Canberra Liberals are demanding more taxpayers’ money be spent on “neglected suburbs”.

Leader Elizabeth Lee is calling on the Labor-Greens government to return more of ACT taxpayers’ money back into their neighbourhoods.

She says in the last decade since Chief Minister Andrew Barr announced his tax reform agenda, revenue collected by his government from ACT taxpayers through rates and charges has more than doubled to over $1.3 billion.

“Canberrans are feeling let down and neglected as they look around their neighbourhoods and see broken footpaths, overgrown verges and parks, roads riddled with potholes, overflowing rubbish bins, playgrounds broken and lacking shade, and neglected waterways,” Ms Lee said.

“Every day, I receive complaints from members of the community who are fed up with the state of their suburbs, fed up with waiting weeks, months and even years for things to be fixed and fed up with being neglected by this Labor-Greens government.

“The extra hundreds of millions of dollars Andrew Barr is collecting from Canberra ratepayers year after year is not going back into our neighbourhoods. It’s not going back into our suburbs and it is clearly not going into our essential local services.”

Ms Lee will move a motion in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday.