Rates increase automatic
• It was interesting to read in the Bulletin the Council' s reasons for a rates increase. Will not rates increase automatically this year as the valuations, at least in Ohakune, have increased by 20-30 per cent? The only way rates cannot increaseis if the council decides to decrease the rate take! I realise a lot of time and effort has been spent on the 'Mainstreet' projects but surely in order to give people a little breathing space they can be deferred for one year. Is it better to have a monumental 'Mainstreet' and nothing much else behind it because people cannot afford to keep their properties up to standard? If rates are increased will this mean that some people will have to sell their properties at lower than valuation prices, thus lowering the valuation of the entire district, because they cannot afford to live here anymore? Surely it is better to gather rates through increased valuation than to push people so hard that they are forced to sell or let their properties decrease in value because they can no longer afford to maintain them.
Mortgagee
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 14, Issue 677, 11 March 1997, Page 6
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188Rates increase automatic Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 14, Issue 677, 11 March 1997, Page 6
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