Rates Remission and Rates Postponement Policies
Our Rates Remission and Rates Postponement Policies are revised every time we develop a new Long Term Plan (every three years).
The policies include:
- Rates penalties (overdue rates etc)
- Rates on unusable land
- Rates on abandoned land
- Rates on land held for conservation or preservation purposes
- Rates on community, sporting and other non-profit organisations
- Rating units containing two separately habitable units
- Excess water consumption
- Wastewater charges for schools
- Rating units occupied/owned in common
- Postponement of rates from extreme financial hardship
- Postponement of rates for ratepayers aged 65 years and over
- Remission of rates on Maori freehold land
- Postponement of rates on Maori freehold land
- Untreated metered water supply in the Thames Valley
- Land subject to a zone change
- Exclusion of campgrounds and other multi-unit facilities for area of service from solid waste collection
- Miscellaneous purposes
- Remission for residents of Licence to Occupy Retirement Villages