Council's financial year commences on 1 July 2024 and ends on 30 June 2025. Rates notices are mailed at the end of July each year and are payable by four installments:

Instalment 1: 30 August 2024
Instalment 2: 31 October 2024
Instalment 3: 31 January 2025
Instalment 4: 29 March 2025

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Late payments and payment arrangements

An interest charge of 10.14% annually, applied at the daily rate of 0.027797% will be payable in respect of the unpaid rates or instalment for the period during which it is unpaid. If you are having difficulties paying your rates and charges, please contact Council on 6393 5300 to discuss payment arrangements and rates relief options, prior to the due date of the first instalment.

Understanding the charges listed on your rates notice

General Rates
The General Rate funds the range of services Council provides for the benefit of all residents such as maintenance of roads, provision of community facilities, parks, recreation facilities, animal management as well as development and regulatory services.

Varied General Rates 2024-25

From 2024-25 adjustments to Assessed Annual Value (AAV) by the Office of the Valuer-General will increase the rateable values of Primary Production by 41% compared to the last adjustment factors received in 2022. Over the same period the increase in Residential Land has been substantially less, at 8%.

Council is required to use these new adjusted values as the basis for General Rate calculations. To moderate the single-year impact of these increases, Council has applied varied rates under section 107 of the Local Government Act 1993. This means a different rate in the dollar of AAV will be applied to the Primary Production Land Use Class (LUC) compared to all other Land Use Classes. This varied rate approach will allow for a transition to the new adjustment factors and provide the opportunity to return to a single rate in the dollar next year.

Tasmanian Government Fire Service Rates
Council is required to collect the Fire Service Rate on behalf of the Tasmanian State Government to help fund the Tasmanian Fire Service.

Waste Management Contribution
This is a fixed annual charge applied to all properties and funds the operational costs of waste management including Council’s landfill sites, transfer stations and site rehabilitation works. If you do not receive a bin collection service, only the Waste Management Contribution will be
listed on your rates notice.

Bin Collection Services
These charges apply for properties in bin collection areas to pay for collection and disposal of household waste, recycling and FOGO (where available). The charge is added to the Waste Management Contribution (above) so it appears as a single charge on your rates notice. Charges vary, depending on the size of your waste bin.

Pensioner Rebates
The Tasmanian Government provides eligible pensioners with discounts on the General Rate and the Fire Service Rate. If you have applied and are eligible for these discounts, they will be listed on your rates notice as Pensioner Rebate and Pensioner Rebate Fire Service Rate and will appear as a deduction.

Need more information?

Council's Ratepayer Information brochure is reviewed annually and contains information about the calculation of rates, remissions and methods of payment:

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