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      <title>Kāpiti Council cutting rates increase to 2.6 per cent</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=127589</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=127589</guid>
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      <dc:date>2020-04-24T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Cutting costs, increasing rates, and holding to values</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=127468</link>
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      <category>rates</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=127468</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-21T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Trimming the budget or increasing the rates</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=127462</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=127462</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-04-20T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>City Council facing revenue shortfall of $60m; it may borrow to avoid a rates increase</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=127031</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=127031</guid>
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      <dc:date>2020-04-02T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Can you afford the increase in rates?</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=79413</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=79413</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-06-30T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Grossly misleading … the claims about increasing rates and borrowing</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=79378</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=79378</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-06-29T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Skewed priorities, and a 6.1% rates increase – the ten-year plan is analysed</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=79319</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=79319</guid>
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      <dc:date>2015-06-26T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>“Socking the ratepayers” with higher rates</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=79321</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=79321</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-06-26T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>What have they decided about rates increases – 6.1%? 4.5%? 3.8%?</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=79323</link>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=79323</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-06-26T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Playing with words</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=46052</link>
      <description>The Regional Council doesn’t want us to focus on its steep increase in rates. Instead, it hopes to distract us with the fact that it has made a small reduction in the amount of the increase which it had been planning.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=46052</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2012-06-29T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The rates increase goes up and up, then down, then up again</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=45765</link>
      <description>The Wellington City Council has announced four different rates increases in the last four months.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=45765</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2012-06-16T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Up, up and away – the city’s annual rates increase</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=44014</link>
      <description>Wellington City Councillors are having difficulty making the savings that they’ve been told are necessary.&#xD;
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Mayor Wade-Brown announced last week that they have been unable to resist their annual rates increase. They’re proposing an average increase of 4.1 per cent. But this is not what she had earlier announced. Only three weeks before, she’d said that councillors had agreed to cap the rates increase at 3.8 per cent.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=44014</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2012-04-12T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>We’re waiting to hear how they’ll save $180m</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=42914</link>
      <description>Wellington City Councillors spent most of last week trying to make decisions about spending. More accurately: decisions about cutting spending. For the rest of us, the issue is what they’ll decide about the rates. They’ve consistently shown enthusiasm for increasing the rates every year. As a result, as the DomPost reports this morning, Wellington’s rates increased by 86 per cent in the first decade of the new century.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=42914</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2012-03-12T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The rates go up, then up and down</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=33273</link>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=33273</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2011-03-29T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Our councilors have decided: we must pay the highest rates increase in five years</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32825</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32825</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2011-03-14T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Time for homeowners to speak up loudly about the rates burden, urges councilor</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32393</link>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=32393</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2011-03-04T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Who’ll be voting for more annual increases in our rates?</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=25463</link>
      <description>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.&#xD;
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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.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=25463</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-06-08T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The city council tries to hide its 5.5 per cent rates increase</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23342</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=23342</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-04-06T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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      <title>What more can we be told about the people who owe money to the council?</title>
      <link>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=22784</link>
      <description>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.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=22784</guid>
      <dc:creator>Wellington Scoop</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2010-03-22T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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