Capture — I make that promise, Peter

• Claim filed: “I make that promise, Peter, to every single Victorian.” (no new or increased taxes)
• Who: Daniel Andrews, then Opposition Leader, Channel 7 with Peter Mitchell
• Date uttered: 28 November 2014 (eve of the Victorian election)
• Capture pages: 3AW, 30 April 2017; David Davis MP page quoting the exchange
• Captured: 2026-08-14
• Method: saved HTML

Verbatim

Peter Mitchell, Seven News, 28 November 2014 (as quoted on davis-taxes.html):

Do you promise Victorians here tonight that you will not increase taxes or introduce any new taxes?

Daniel Andrews:

I make that promise, Peter, to every single Victorian.

Same night, then-shadow treasurer Tim Pallas:

Labor will not introduce any new taxes or increase any existing taxes to fund our election commitments.

3AW, 30 April 2017 — 3aw-2017-04-30.html
https://www.3aw.com.au/neil-mitchell-the-promise-daniel-andrews-broke-a-third-time-yesterday-20170430-gvw1sx/

Repeats the Mitchell line. By then: car stamp duty up about one-third, stamp duty changes on some house sales, Uber levy. Andrews, same page:

None of the commitments we made were dependant on tax increases.

We’ve delivered on each and every commitment we’ve made.

The other meter — named taxes, auditor’s numbers

Victorian Auditor-General, AFR 2024–25 — vago-afr-2024-25.html
https://www.audit.vic.gov.au/report/auditor-generals-report-annual-financial-report-state-victoria-2024-25/

As shown in Figure 29, the government has introduced several new taxes in recent years, resulting in increased tax revenue.

Taxation income has grown by 68.1 per cent since 2019–20, driven in part by new taxes. The mental health and wellbeing surcharge and COVID-19 debt levies for payroll and land tax contributed $3.1 billion and $3.3 billion in additional tax income in 2023–24 and 2024–25.

Since the government’s launch of the COVID Debt Repayment Plan in 2023–24… the plan has raised $4.3 billion through COVID debt levies.

General government sector taxes in that year: $38.9 billion (VAGO key-numbers snapshot).

State Revenue Office — sro-wgt.html
https://www.sro.vic.gov.au/windfall-gains-tax
Windfall gains tax: applies when land value rises due to rezoning.

State Revenue Office — sro-vrlt.html
https://www.sro.vic.gov.au/vacant-residential-land-tax
Vacant residential land tax (a post-2014 instrument).

Opposition lists (Davis and others) count dozens of new or increased charges. Those lists are partisan. The auditor’s “several new taxes,” the two named levies in the billions, and the SRO pages are the receipt.

What this file does not do

It does not file “every tax is a rort.” COVID happened after 2014. It files the 2014 sentence — no new taxes, no increases — against taxes that later arrived with different names.