Just wondering if any other Councils have received a letter from NSW Farmers?
Dated 29/4/20
RE: Land Valuations and rating impacts on farmers
Just trying to establish if everyone got one or are we an isolated Council. We have one very vocal Councillor (rated farmland), who was the President of NSW Farmers at one stage.
Hi Emma,
We received a letter from the NSW Farmers Association, in which we provided a response too.
We basically advised them that we have conducted an anaylsis and the provided them with a comparison on LVs and rates between this year and the proposed rates for next year and that under the Act Council would consider s601 for hardship based on any valuation increase.
We also received a letter from the NSW Farmers Association and provided a response.
In our response we advised that we are required to maintain our rating structure due to being a merged council, however, in the 2020/21 rating year properties categorised as Farmland had an advantage in that the RID for this category is set at a lower percentage of the Residential RID.
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