Rate rebate levy doubled
PA Auckland The initial contribution low-income home owners have to make to the Government rates rebate scheme has been raised from $5O to $lOO. The change, initiated on April 12 in the Rates Rebate Order, 1979, followed a Government review of the regulations of the rebate legislation enacted by the Labour Government in'l973. The legislation was designed to ease the financial burden of low-income earners, pensioners, and some superannuitants, who were having difficulty paying their rates demands.
According to an estimate, in the last financial year about 90,000 ratepayers, mostly elderly pensioners
and persons on low incomes, qualified for an average rebate of about $7B. The subsidy cost the Consolidated Revenue Account about SB.SM. The amendment to the regulations has been described by the Opposition spokesman on local government affairs (Mr E. E. Isbey) as “a furtive attack on the living standards of our people.” In effect it “slashed” the amount of rebate ratepayers could claim and “it was all done by stealth,” Mr Isbey said. He said that it would cut the $7B rebate by more than half and it came on top of many other big increases in the cost of living.
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Press, 23 April 1979, Page 23
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198Rate rebate levy doubled Press, 23 April 1979, Page 23
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