How Much Are Your Rates?

Hotpotcorn on 25/12/2015 - 19:58

So i just paid off my council rates. a whopping $2478.15.
capital improved value 560k….
its getting more expensive every year even though my captital value has not changed!!!!
So with my rant over, I am curious to what others pay. Just to make me spit even more at my council. i live at 3116

Poll Options

  • 1
    0-500
  • 4
    501-1000
  • 26
    1001-1500
  • 11
    1501-2000
  • 8
    2001-2500
  • 4
    2501-3000
  • 3
    3000 or more
Financial

Comments

  • Uncle Chop Chop on 25/12/2015 - 20:05
    +1

    5255, capital value $640,000 semi-rural… $2860 per year.

    And yeah it's a bloody joke if you ask me. $55 per week to get a bin collected (which costs $3 at the local dump, 5 km away). And next year they're going to reduce bin collections to fortnightly…

  • boonanza on 25/12/2015 - 20:06
    +1

    Why don't you pay it Quarerly?

    • Hotpotcorn on 25/12/2015 - 20:07
      -1

      why would i want to pay quarterly?? its the same amount???

      • boonanza on 25/12/2015 - 21:25
        +2

        Because instead of paying $2500 in one hit at Christmas you can pay it in instalments but each to their own.

        • Hotpotcorn on 25/12/2015 - 21:36
          -1

          i still dont get your point……. you end up paying the same amount in instalments so why not pay it in full when you have the money available?????

        • poiuy1234 on 25/12/2015 - 21:40
          +4

          @Zfan111222:

          If you have a mortgage with redraw feature, the money could be sitting there saving you interest, until you have to pay the instalment off…

        • Hotpotcorn on 25/12/2015 - 21:43
          -1

          @poiuy1234:
          ive paid off my mortgage though

        • boonanza on 25/12/2015 - 21:51
          +2

          @Zfan111222:
          Congratulations Zfan111222 owning your own home

        • Hotpotcorn on 25/12/2015 - 21:53
          -1

          @boonanza:
          did took me 25 years…..

        • boonanza on 25/12/2015 - 21:57

          @Zfan111222:
          So you would have had the extremely high interest rates early on then?

        • Hotpotcorn on 25/12/2015 - 21:59

          @boonanza:
          yeh i was on variable… i remember paying 15%……

  • BigTed on 25/12/2015 - 20:38

    6107 - $1298
    I'm within about 20 mins of the city.
    Comparatively speaking I live in a pretty low-rating council.

  • chickentaste on 25/12/2015 - 23:16

    Minimum residential works out at about $2200 in Cairns.

  • frente69 on 26/12/2015 - 08:49

    Relatively low rates in Tas

  • User167511 on 26/12/2015 - 08:52

    I'm in 6148 on a $2.4m riverfront property of 1200m3 paying $2350. 20mins/13km from centre of Perth. A mate in Fremantle pays $2960 close to river buy no views in high density section, value $1.6m 250m3 block. He is spitting chips about it. The increases in recent years are outrageous.
    WHY ARE SO MANY PAYING SO MUCH?!!!

    More important question: How to fight city hall?!!!!

    • johninmelb on 26/12/2015 - 13:37

      How to fight city hall - simple - at the ballot box.

      Stand for council on a platform of reducing the rates. You will be elected without any opposition.

      You will also make history - no-one has yet thought of this idea.

  • azvc on 26/12/2015 - 20:11

    4123 - $1515.20
    Cat. 1 = 0.302 cents per ARV$.

  • ant meal on 26/12/2015 - 20:19

    $1800+ semi rural MPSC C.I.V. $650,000

  • [Deactivated] on 27/12/2015 - 22:07

    Contact the council and ask them what additional services they are providing for the increased rate, etc. We had ours revised to the last year's amount for three years in a row now, so I haven't paid more in four years now.

    Go to council meetings and raise your issue over and over again, if others agree they will tow the line with you.

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