[Dajana Poblete]

Hi all,

Hoping you could share your approach to charging Domestic Waste Strata Additional Services. This is where the whole strata requests to share the bin. Do you levy this charge under section 496 and issue a rate notices for this? Or do you raise a Sundry Invoice since this is charged to the Strata Manager who then apportion this cost as part of their strata fees? Appreciate your thoughts on this.

[Andrew Butcher]

Hi Dajana

I am responding to this fairly quickly as I was just on the website when it came in. Also, I moved it to the Domestic Waste chat for you.

We use Pathway that allows us to raise charges against the parent strata assessment. The parent is not a rateable parcel but the Act does permit charges to be raised if the owner provides in writing a request to be charged, ‘council may make an annual charge for the provision of a domestic waste management service for a parcel of land that is exempt from rating if, the owner of that land requests or agrees to the provision of the service to that land,’. The request must be in writing.

We only provide additional organics services, otherwise each unit is levied an annual charge for waste and recycling, if they have a single large bin we still charge each unit.

Hope this is helpful.

Regards,
Andrew

• This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by Andrew Butcher.

[Dajana Poblete]

Hi Andrew

Thank you for the speedy response. Do you generate a rate notice for this charge on parent strata assessment? I’m assuming that you do, and it only shows waste charges and no rates.

[Andrew Butcher]

Hi Dajana

Yes, that is correct, we generate a rates and charges notice without rates. It helps to track for waste reporting and debt management.

Regards,
Andrew

[Author]

Posts