Wellington Scoop and Rates https://wellington.gen.nz/wellington-scoop+rates Items tagged with Wellington Scoop and Rates. The rates go up, then up and down http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=33273 The Wellington City Council yesterday announced an add-on to next year’s budget – an extra $120,000 “to improve community emergency preparedness.” In the same announcement, we’re told that the average rates increase is going up to 4.4 per cent from the previously announced 4.3 per cent. Curiously, the council also tells us that rates increases for homeowners and commercial property owners will be coming down. rates wcc government media Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=33273 Wellington Scoop 2011-03-29T00:00:00Z Our councilors have decided: we must pay the highest rates increase in five years http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32825 rates wcc government media Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32825 Wellington Scoop 2011-03-14T00:00:00Z Time for homeowners to speak up loudly about the rates burden, urges councilor http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32393 With the Wellington City Council’s Funding, Activities and Revenue working party finishing its deliberations, the prospect of homeowners being asked to shoulder the rates burden again is almost a foregone conclusion. That will mean another zero rates increase to the owners of commercial buildings and another seven percent increase for home owners. wcc rates government media Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32393 Wellington Scoop 2011-03-04T00:00:00Z Who’ll be voting for more annual increases in our rates? http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=25463 Soon after the government announced its tax cuts, the Wellington City Council moved in the opposite direction and announced its annual increase in rates. Last week’s announcement tells us that the rates for Wellington home owners are going up by an average of 5.75 per cent. The increase is even higher than than the figure which the council announced a month ago – when it said that 5.5 per cent was to be the increase for home owners. wcc rates government media Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=25463 Wellington Scoop 2010-06-08T00:00:00Z The city council tries to hide its 5.5 per cent rates increase http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23342 wcc rates government media Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23342 Wellington Scoop 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z What more can we be told about the people who owe money to the council? http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=22784 Ratepayers have reason to want more information about the $30million in overdue payments which was owing to the Wellington City Council at the end of its last financial year. wcc rates government media Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=22784 Wellington Scoop 2010-03-22T00:00:00Z