{"id":64027,"date":"2014-04-16T22:55:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=64027"},"modified":"2014-04-16T22:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T12:55:38","slug":"return-to-half-yearly-rates-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/04\/16\/return-to-half-yearly-rates-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Return To Half-Yearly Rates ‘Difficult’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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South Burnett Mayor Wayne Kratzmann (Photo: SBRC)<\/figcaption><\/figure>April 16, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Burnett Regional Council’s attempt to make household budgets easier to manage by introducing quarterly rates is proving hard to wind back.<\/p>\n

Quarterly rates were introduced in the 2012-2013 Budget.<\/p>\n

At the time, Mayor Wayne Kratzmann said quarterly billing was being introduced to lower the impact half-yearly rates bills were having on household and business budgets.<\/p>\n

Councillors also hoped the introduction of smaller, more frequent billing would help reduce the level of rate arrears.<\/p>\n

However, today’s Council meeting was told that almost two years of data showed quarterly billing has had little or no effect on arrears. Instead, it has added $250,000 a year to Council’s operating costs.<\/p>\n

SBRC Finance Manager Gary Wall said about 86 per cent of ratepayers paid their rates bill on or before the due date to claim their rates discount.<\/p>\n

This was about the same percentage that did so when rates notices were issued bi-annually.<\/p>\n

Mayor Kratzmann said he was in favour of a return to twice-yearly billing (in February and August) to reduce Council’s costs but some thought would have to be given about how to make the switch.<\/p>\n

“At the moment we issue rates notices in August, November, February and May and give a 10 per cent discount if rates notices are paid within 30 days of being issued.” he said. <\/p>\n

“But if we swap back to half-yearly notices in next year’s Budget, then our ratepayers will receive a bill for three months’ rates in May, then a bill for six months’ rates in August.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think this would go down very well, so we’ll need to look at some way to ease in the changeover. <\/p>\n

“But whether this would be by extending the discount period or some other way I don’t know.”<\/p>\n

Councillors will now debate how and when to effect a switch back to half-yearly billing in their Budget discussions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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