[Andrew Butcher]

The Minister for Local Government, with the approval of the Premier, has asked IPART to conduct a review of the current local government rate pegging system to consider population growth.

The terms of reference ask IPART to recommend a rate peg methodology that allows the general income of councils to be varied annually in a way that accounts for population growth. This will ensure adequate infrastructure and services can be provided to residents of local government areas experiencing population growth.

More information can be found here: https://www.ipart.nsw.gov.au/Home/Industries/Local-Government/Reviews/Rate-peg-population-growth/Review-of-the-rate-peg-to-include-population-growth

The NSW Revenue Professionals will be making a submission once the time arises.

Regards,
Andrew

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[Steve Ansoul]

Hi Andrew,

Our council wants to lodge a submission so I was wondering if NSWRP has a draft response to the 12 questions (or the like) that would be available? Only asking so that we can be consistent (if our Council agrees of course). Tourists have a significant impact to our LGA so we intend to ask IPART to consider a “tourism” growth factor as well.

Thanks Andrew.

Steve A.

[Cherie Muir]

Hi all

In regard to questions 1-3 about costs in the Issues Paper, has your council quantified and modelled these costs explicitly or will your council take a generic approach to these questions for the purposes of the submission?

1. What council costs increase as a result of population growth? How much do these costs increase with additional population growth?
2. How do council costs change with different types of population growth?
3. What costs of population growth are not currently funded through the rate peg or developer contributions? How are they currently recovered?

TIA,

Regards
Cherie

[Andrew Butcher]

Great to see council’s looking into this matter. Cherie is correct to ask the questions in her post and I would be interested in hearing about any such modelling.
Attached is the NSW Revenue Professionals submission to IPART.

NSW Revenue Professionals submission to IPART Rate Peg to include population growth

Regards,
Andrew

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