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Selling Council assets is only putting off the evil day
Monday, 21 May 2012, 10:56 am | No More Rates
Selling council assets is a short-term attempt to hold back the tide of ever-increasing council rates increases. More >>
Council should not spend ratepayer funds on jobseeking
Tuesday, 15 May 2012, 10:18 am | No More Rates
It is not the role of local councils to spend ratepayers funds to become involved in finding jobs for unemployed youth. More >>
Ratepayers under attack from big business lobby
Wednesday, 9 May 2012, 11:55 am | No More Rates
Business ratepayers are urging Auckland Council to abolish a rating differential which will result in compensating rates increases for residential and rural ratepayers. More >>
Mayor is Jumping the Gun on Business Rate Decreases
Tuesday, 8 May 2012, 4:57 pm | No More Rates
In a press release today Mayor Brown confirmed that business differentials on council rates will reduce over the next decade. Any reduction in business rates will need to be balanced by a further increase in residential and rural rates. More >>
Law needed to limit councils ability to increase rates
Wednesday, 14 March 2012, 10:30 am | No More Rates
The nationwide campaign to replace the present system of council rates with a fairer system which reflects ability to pay and value for money . Media release 14 March 2012 New legislation needed to limit councils ability to increase rates above specified ... More >>
Auckland Council consultation process a total sham
Friday, 9 March 2012, 2:07 pm | No More Rates
Yesterday the Auckland Council voted to spend a further $8 million on the proposed Central Rail Loop. More >>
Auckland ratepayers will really suffer
Wednesday, 15 February 2012, 5:47 pm | No More Rates
Media release 15th February 2012 Auckland ratepayers will really suffer when new rates bills go out. Council’s plan to ‘cushion effects’ of switching to capital value rating will be unaffordable to tens of thousands of ratepayers Cost of switching ... More >>
Dump the most liveable city vision
Monday, 13 February 2012, 1:14 pm | No More Rates
Media release 13 Feb 2012 Statement from David Thornton Dump the most liveable city vision – and impose financial discipline on rate increases. Auckland Mayor Len Brown has ignored all the early warnings that ratepayers are not interested in paying ... More >>
Auckland Council should stop blaming Government
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 3:34 pm | No More Rates
In the current furore surrounding the Auckland Council budgeting process it is the Council itself which is at fault – especially the Mayor. The new legislation is clear – it is the job of the Mayor to prepare a draft budget to present to the ... More >>
Ominous early signs for ratepayers
Monday, 29 November 2010, 9:48 am | No More Rates
Reports over recent days clearly indicate that the daily operating costs of the proposed extended rail system through a new underground loop will need to be heavily subsidised by Auckland ratepayers. The Minister of Transport has pointed to the existing operating ... More >>
Major effect on rates will come in 22 months time
Monday, 30 August 2010, 5:05 pm | No More Rates
Ratepayers will applaud the reduction in water rates announced by Watercare Services and Local Government Minister Rodney Hide today. More >>
Fines Revenue Not Acceptable Substitute For Rates
Friday, 23 July 2010, 4:30 pm | No More Rates
Auckland City Council has once again been caught out in a desperate attempt to raise additional income instead of applying itself to the real cause of its financial problems – its constant failure to cut costs, and lack of control over expenditure. More >>
Council Spend-Ups Insult To Ratepayers
Saturday, 26 June 2010, 12:34 pm | No More Rates
For councils to propose spending thousands of dollars on farewell parties, while at the same time warning of big rate increases under Super City, is an insult to ratepayers whose money that are spending. More >>
Public Notice of meeting contains untruths
Friday, 11 June 2010, 12:16 pm | No More Rates
Media Release 11 June 2010 North Shore City Council spending ratepayers money on political protest meeting. Public Notice of meeting contains untruths . [Statement from David Thornton] The North Shore City Council has paid for a quarter-page colour ... More >>
Pay rises for councillors totally unacceptable
Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 10:30 am | No More Rates
The current round of proposed pay increases for elected members of the existing councils in the Auckland is indefensible and totally unwarranted. More >>
Auckland Ratepayers Hit For RWC 2011
Thursday, 11 February 2010, 9:46 am | No More Rates
Ratepayers in Auckland region face 10% rise in council rates and charges. Government must act to curtail local authority spending. Before the gaggle of Auckland Mayors give their approval for ratepayers to carry the cost of the $40M + shortfall at Eden ... More >>
‘Free’ library books have to be paid for
Wednesday, 27 January 2010, 2:10 pm | No More Rates
There is no such thing as a ‘free library book service’. Someone has to pay, at sometime, for the provision of library facilities and the constant stream of new books to stock them. More >>
Ratepayers will get hit again if GST rises to 15%
Thursday, 21 January 2010, 10:23 am | No More Rates
Today’s release of the Tax Working Group report recommends that there should be no new exemptions to GST if the rate goes up to the 15% it is suggesting. More >>
Ratepayers will get hit again if GST rises to 15%
Wednesday, 20 January 2010, 3:35 pm | No More Rates
THE NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN TO REPLACE THE PRESENT SYSTEM OF COUNCIL RATES WITH A FAIRER SYSTEM WHICH REFLECTS ABILITY TO PAY AND VALUE FOR MONEY. More >>
Major threat to Auckland ratepayers
Monday, 7 December 2009, 10:15 am | No More Rates
The move to a single rating system under the new Auckland Council poses a major threat to ratepayers. The combination of a change to capital value rating, together with a new valuation role, across the more than 500,000 ratepayers, will involve potentially ... More >>
