Councils are worse than banks when it comes to financial hardship, a report says.
Tag: rates
NSW councillors now eligible for super
NSW councils will be able to make superannuation contributions from next year.
NSW greenlights infrastructure contribution reforms
The NSW government has accepted recommendations for overhauling infrastructure contributions – but councils say there are some red flags.
Report backs population-linked rate peg
The NSW Productivity Commission says council rates should reflect population.
Avoid court over rate debts, councils told
Local government actions to recover unpaid rate debts make up almost a third of NSW’s local court civil matters.
Councils hiking rates ‘behind closed doors’: report
New audit raises concerns that local governments in Queensland could be hiking rates beyond the legal limit and are failing to disclose reasons for rate increases, prompting a call for regulatory reform.
Victorian local council rates outcry: Will services suffer?
Rate cap set at 2 per cent.
IPART reduces rate peg again: NSW councils told to tighten their belts
Merged councils hamstrung.
IPART “fiddling around the edge” with NSW local council rates
Ratepegging here to stay.
Roads will crumble but services improve under mega councils: experts
Promised savings unlikely to materialise form mergers.