Council’s Per-Bedroom Rate Take Has Doubled in Four Years. Where Is the Money Going?
The NBR’s Tim Hunter has written a piece that got me fired up. You can read it here: Let’s vote for control on rates
I posted in 2024 about Auckland Council’s infill cash grab, and I will add that it fills central government coffers too. The GST revenue on this particular development was large, greater than many margins.
Now the numbers are easy to see. Council has doubled their rate-take over four years on a per-bedroom basis through intensification.
Where are the economies of scale? Costs per human, yes, but doubling per bedroom?
Where is this money going, Mayor Wayne Brown, Phil Wilson, Christopher Bishop, Simon Watts?
The infill process has become a revenue multiplication scheme, not a housing solution. We need transparency on per-bedroom rate calculations.
