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    • Hutt City rates increase 2%
      • 10 Mar 2010
      • Hutt City Council
      • Hutt City Council is proposing the average ratepayer will see their rates increase by just two percent in the coming financial year. This follows a meeting today of Mayor David Ogden and councillors to approve the draft Annual Plan for 2010/11.
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    • Wellington heading for its lowest rates rise in years
      • 4 Mar 2010
      • Wellington City Council
      • Wellington City Council’s Strategy and Policy Committee this week agreed to a range of proposed new initiatives and changes that, if approved, will result in an overall average real rates increase of 2.85 percent for the coming financial year – the lowest commercial and residential rise for seven years.
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    • Why should I pay rates?
      • 26 Jan 2010
      • Capital Times
      • BERNIE Harris refuses to pay his rates. The Brooklyn resident is in arrears $686.98, as of December last year. “The mayor says if we don’t pay rates then we won’t be able to pay for services. If I’m not going to use the services why should I pay for the rates?” says Harris.
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      • wellington city council

    • We Want to Raise One Million and Make it Four
      • 27 May 2009
      • Wellington's Official Tourism Website
      • Slightly increasing Wellington City Council’s downtown levy could build a fund to attract co-investment and raise up to $4million for marketing the capital in Australia, Positively Wellington Tourism (PWT) says.
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      • tourism

    • Council Keeps Likely Rate Rise Below 4 Percent
      • 13 Mar 2009
      • Wellington City Council
      • Wellington City Council's Strategy and Policy Committee yesterday agreed to a draft long-term plan that if approved will result in a 3.67 percent increase in the total rates take in the coming financial year - a figure in keeping with the Council's aim to keep the increase below 4 percent.
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      • wellington city council

    • How they voted on switching commercial rates onto your rates bill
      • 12 Mar 2009
      • Back To The Future
      • At this week's Strategy and Policy Meeting for the LTCCP (Long Term Council Community Plan) Councillors voted on setting of the rates.The following is a list of how Councillors voted to continue to switch the commercial rates onto the residents' rates bill.
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      • wellington city council

      • This Back To Future newsitem has 2 comments.

        • ‘Yes Pauline, our Mayor would have a conflict of interest providing she could see through our eyes, and while you have just mentioned the obvious, what about Nova Gas?Through a partnership with Todd Energy and the help of the ratepayers who forked out 50%’
        • ‘Thank you just wonder where some of them are coming from especially with theMayor's comments re the World Rugby about accommodation booked out, restaurantsbars etc....she surely has a conflict of interest.....CheersPaulin’

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    • Wellingtonians face tough New Year rating choices
      • 2 Jan 2009
      • Wellington City Council
      • A Facebook page, a phone hotline, a residentsÂ’ panel – just three of the ways the Wellington City Council aims to get residentsÂ’ views in the New Year about the tough spending and rating choices the city faces in coming years.
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    • How wellington city council voted on setting the rates for 2008/2009
      • 29 Jun 2008
      • Back To The Future
      • Voting at a meeting of full Council on 27/6/2008 to continue to shift the commercial rates onto the residential rates bill were the following councillors:
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      • This Back To Future newsitem has 2 comments.

        • ‘Dear Bryan,It seems I have spoken too soon!!! Kerry's gang just got bigger and you are now the "only" Wellington City Councillor against the shift of the burden from commercial to and the increase of the residential rates.You now need to be congratulated’
        • ‘Dear Bryan,Thanks for keeping us informed, in view of the shift of the burden from commercial to residdential rates can we (the ratepayers) expect to shop at reduced prices next time we purchase? Or is this just another golden handshake from Kerry and th’

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    • Committee Agrees to 5.18 Percent Average Real Rates Increase For 2008/09
      • 20 Jun 2008
      • Wellington City Council
      • Wellington City Council’s Strategy and Policy Committee yesterday approved a range of initiatives and changes for the coming financial year that will result in an average real rates increase of 5.18 percent, after allowing for growth in the ratepayer base.
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    • Rating Information Database
      • 20 May 2008
      • Hutt City Council
      • The Hutt City Council and the Greater Wellington Regional Council give notice underSection 28 of the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002 that the Rating InformationDatabase is available for public inspection at the Hutt City Council’s AdministrationOffice, 30 Laings Road, Lower Hutt between the hours of 8am and 5pm Mondayto Friday.
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    • Rates again
      • 12 Mar 2008
      • Capital Times
      • WELLINGTONIANS face increased rates and user charges under the Wellington City Council’s Draft Annual Plan.
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    • Wellington City Council Setting Residential Rates for 2008
      • 11 Mar 2008
      • Back To The Future
      • The differential movement was halted during the election year as it was considered to be politically contentious. It has now been recomended that it move once again, this time from from 4.2 to 3.8 . This movement will have to be added to the residential rate increase. The impact will be felt by all renters and rataepayers throughout the city.
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      • wellington city council

      • This Back To Future newsitem has 1 comment.

        • ‘Dear Bryan,For some time now we hear through the media that houses have been over valued in some cases by as much as 30%. As I understand it the rates we pay to our prospective council's nationwide must then also be to high. Should we therefore not expec’

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    • “Double whammy” for residents
      • 11 Jul 2007
      • Capital Times
      • WELLINGTON residents face a “double whammy” next year as the ratings differential shifts more of the burden onto residential ratepayers at the same time as council debt skyrockets, says councillor Bryan Pepperell.
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      • wellington city council

    • Wellington City Council keeps switching business rates onto your rates bill.
      • 20 Jun 2007
      • Back To The Future
      • oday, in the closing stage of the Draft Annual Plan, Jack Ruben and Bryan Pepperell moved an amendment to stop switching the rates from business onto the residents' rates bill. Those voting for the Ruben / Pepperell amendment were:
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      • wellington city council

      • This Back To Future newsitem has 1 comment.

        • ‘The list of those siding with Big Business reads like a Who's - Who of Wellington's Right-wing "Yes"-Men & Women.The likes of Ahipene Mercer - purporting to be 'the People's Candidate' and Wade-Brown with her supposed 'Green' policies - should be ASHAMED’

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    • Residential rates to rise 6.1%
      • 28 Mar 2007
      • Capital Times
      • Residential ratepayers will get a smaller than expected rates rise in the run up to the October local body elections following an amendment to the Draft Annual Plan proposed by Deputy Mayor Alick Shaw. Shaw retained his central city Lambton Ward by fewer than 100 votes in 2004.
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      • wellington city council

    • Wellington City Council sets rates for 2007/08-Another election year
      • 22 Mar 2007
      • Back To The Future
      • This is a Council on the run from its own policies and is about to have cardiac arrest. The Deputy Mayor, with his handful of votes that got him elected to Council, senses that CPR might be needed to a Council that is in its death throes now gasping for life with the possibility of an eight percent rate increase to the residents and a two percent increase to the commercial sector.
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      • wellington city council

      • This Back To Future newsitem has 1 comment.

        • ‘No doubt it Pepp, the present set of Councillors have the personal integrity of a rat with a gold tooth.What IS scary is the prospect of this transparent bribe woo-ing voters for yet another round of fiscal punishment at the hands of Shaw, Mrs. Nicholls ’

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    • City Ratepayers Face Lower Than Expected Rates Rise
      • 8 Mar 2007
      • Wellington City Council
      • Wellington City Council's Strategy and Policy Committee yesterday agreed to a range of new initiatives and other changes that if approved will result in an average real rates increase of 3.84 percent.
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