Victorian Labor has promised to permanently freeze the emergency services tax rate imposed on farmland.
The Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund has been wildly unpopular with farmers, who had been facing large rate hikes.
The Coalition and One Nation have committed to scrap the fund altogether.
Victorian Labor will permanently freeze the contentious Emergency Services and Volunteers Fund (ESVF) levy charged on farmland if it wins re-election this month.
The new tax to fund fire and emergency services prompted a backlash from farmers and Country Fire Authority volunteers who labelled it unfair and unaffordable, with some facing rate increases of tens of thousands of dollars.
Just before the ESVF came into effect in July last year, the government announced a temporary backdown, capping the rate charged on farmland at 28.7 per cent.
The Coalition and One Nation have already promised to scrap the ESVF.
Agriculture Minister Michaela Settle told the Victorian Country Hour on Thursday the freeze would stay.
Ms Settle said the cap maintained the rate charged under the old Fire Services levy.
"When the Coalition talk about axing the tax, they're talking about axing the CFA rebate, they're talking about axing funding for the SES," she said.
Victorian Farmers Federation president Ryan Milgate welcomed Labor's promised rate freeze.
