Post by Kiwi Frontline on Mar 12, 2020 2:32:15 GMT 12
MĀORI LAND NOT INCLUDED IN COURT ACTION OVER UNPAID RATES: FAR NORTH DISTRICT COUNCIL
Māori freehold land: $18,335,330 owed by 2417 accounts. Most of that is penalties.
No Māori land is among the 57 properties whose owners face court action over years of unpaid rates, the Far North District Council says.
The FNDC is defending its efforts to recover millions of dollars in rates arrears after a claim by the New Zealand Māori Council that it was using the courts to confiscate Māori land over unpaid rates.
In a no-holds-barred statement Māori Council executive director Matthew Tukaki described the FNDC's legal action as ''nothing more than a land grab by modern day pirates''.
He warned local bodies to ''keep their hands off Māori land'' while new legislation addressing rates arrears on Māori land makes its way through Parliament......
www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=12315161
Māori freehold land: $18,335,330 owed by 2417 accounts. Most of that is penalties.
No Māori land is among the 57 properties whose owners face court action over years of unpaid rates, the Far North District Council says.
The FNDC is defending its efforts to recover millions of dollars in rates arrears after a claim by the New Zealand Māori Council that it was using the courts to confiscate Māori land over unpaid rates.
In a no-holds-barred statement Māori Council executive director Matthew Tukaki described the FNDC's legal action as ''nothing more than a land grab by modern day pirates''.
He warned local bodies to ''keep their hands off Māori land'' while new legislation addressing rates arrears on Māori land makes its way through Parliament......
www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=12315161