Horizons Regional Council
Rates and revenue
The work of local government is funded mainly by property taxes in the local area, known as rates. This makes up around 60% of council expenditure, with the rest coming from user charges, investment income, regulatory fees and roading subsidies. Councils can also borrow money to spread the cost of large investments such as infrastructure over a longer period of time.
Rates and revenue
The work of local government is funded mainly by property taxes in the local area, known as rates. This makes up around 60% of council expenditure, with the rest coming from user charges, investment income, regulatory fees and roading subsidies. Councils can also borrow money to spread the cost of large investments such as infrastructure over a longer period of time.
Focus on high-impact, shovel-ready projects that align with government funding priorities, including flood protection and climate resilience.
Explore public-private partnerships for infrastructure and environmental restoration.
Conduct a zero-based budgeting review to reassess all expenditures from the ground up.
Simplify one plan as rates are unsustainable at flagged increase levels with previous years compounding to an unsustainable level.
Prioritise hard as rate increases are bound to spiral social bankruptcy.
Cut the cloth to fit as constituents do daily by foregoing less priority wants to later dates.
Focus on high-impact, shovel-ready projects that align with government funding priorities, including flood protection and climate resilience.
Explore public-private partnerships for infrastructure and environmental restoration.
Conduct a zero-based budgeting review to reassess all expenditures from the ground up.
Simplify one plan as rates are unsustainable at flagged increase levels with previous years compounding to an unsustainable level.
Prioritise hard as rate increases are bound to spiral social bankruptcy.
Cut the cloth to fit as constituents do daily by foregoing less priority wants to later dates.
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