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Uniform Annual General Charges

 

This is a fixed amount per rating unit, or per separately used or inhabited part of a rating unit, for all rateable land within the district.

A “separately used or inhabited part of a rating unit” is defined as:

Any portion of a rating unit used or inhabited by any person, other than the ratepayer or member of the ratepayers household, having a right to use or inhabit that portion by virtue of a tenancy, lease, license or other agreement.

For clarification, this means that each flat within a block of flats, or each shop within a block of shops, for example, would be rated a uniform annual general charge.  The same would apply to a farm with more than one dwelling, (i.e. worker accommodation), or a residential property with a separate fully self-contained unit available for visitor accommodation.

 

What does the Uniform Annual General Charge pay for?

This charge funds the general operations of Council, including waste management and recycling, governance, library services, sports fields, playgrounds, cemetery, walkways, public halls, general environmental health and civil defence.

See the schedule of adopted rates and charges for the value of this charge this year.