Post by Kiwi Frontline on Apr 28, 2023 2:55:45 GMT 12
GISBORNE DISTRICT COUNCIL REVIEWING MAORI LAND RATES
A review into how rates are applied to Māori freehold land is under way at Gisborne District Council, with policy changes set to be included in the next long-term plan.
Around 20-30 percent of the district is classified as whenua Māori land.
The council had carried out a strategic review of Māori freehold land in 2014 but since then, key changes for rating that land had come about as a result of the Local Government (Rating of Whenua Māori) Amendment Act 2021 being incorporated into the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002.
The latter gave the council the ability to support the use and development of Māori freehold land in a number of ways.
Those included giving the chief executive the power to remove rate arrears, making most Māori freehold land non-rateable and providing a statutory rates remission process for Māori land under-development.....
www.gisborneherald.co.nz/ldr/gdc-reviewing-maori-land-rates
A review into how rates are applied to Māori freehold land is under way at Gisborne District Council, with policy changes set to be included in the next long-term plan.
Around 20-30 percent of the district is classified as whenua Māori land.
The council had carried out a strategic review of Māori freehold land in 2014 but since then, key changes for rating that land had come about as a result of the Local Government (Rating of Whenua Māori) Amendment Act 2021 being incorporated into the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002.
The latter gave the council the ability to support the use and development of Māori freehold land in a number of ways.
Those included giving the chief executive the power to remove rate arrears, making most Māori freehold land non-rateable and providing a statutory rates remission process for Māori land under-development.....
www.gisborneherald.co.nz/ldr/gdc-reviewing-maori-land-rates