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Rates Are For Services…
Rates Are For Services…
A point missing in the commentary to date on Auckland City’s massive rate rise proposals is that “Rates are for services…”
Ratepayers should pay the same price for the same service, noted Auckland Chamber Chief Executive Michael Barnett.
“Part of the huge unfairness and damage of the Auckland City package will be its distortion and discriminatory impacts on different sectors through the City requiring different groups to pay a higher or lower price for the same service, and striking rates that bear no relationship to the actual cost of the service it is allegedly paying for.”
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