Hi all,
I hope everyone had a great time at the conference this year, I’m so sad I couldn’t attend.
Anyway, as part of harmonisation Snowy Monaro Regional Council has resolved to move forward with the following structure from 01/07/2021 & the Revenue Policy is currently on display:-
Catetory Subcategory Base Rates Ad Valorem
Farmland $475.00 0.0033568
Residential $475.00 0.0033568
Business $475.00 0.0033568
Business Electricity Generation $1,187.50 0.0083920
Mining $1,187.50 0.0083920
To save postage costs, we are hoping to issue a Change of Categorisation Declaration letter to all rateable assessments, as an insert with our Annual notices in early to mid July & would like some feed back to the following question:-
Do you think issuing the letter with the notices is acceptable or should we do a mail out to all properties before the issue of the notices?
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
As per previous forum discussions, it seems the general consensus (although not tested in the LGC) is that the issue of a rates notice (with all the relevant information eg Sec 524/525) is a compliant form of declaration (Non-rateable properties will be dealt with separately).
On 01/07/2021, all business & business sub-categories will be re-categorised as the new single business category & the same will be done for Residential & Farmland (no mining in LGA). Under the new structure, all categories other than Electricity have the same Base & Ad Valorem rates, so if an application for review of category was lodged & a change was granted or an appeal was made to the Land & Enviro Court etc, not matter what the outcome there would be no change to the value of the levy raised.
Also, from now until the notices are issued, we will continue to issue one off Declaration letters if there is a category change.
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