Push for change in council rating system

David Thornton has written to Paula Bennett asking her to investigate his proposal in which annual tax charges would be by way of a “transparent percentage based on the new PVT.”

Sally Lindsay
Fri, 24 Jul 2015

Rates campaigner David Thornton wants Local Government Minister Paula Bennett to look at scrapping council rates and replacing them with a property value tax (PVT) where increases are limited to 2% a year.

The former North Shore councillor has written to Ms Bennett asking her to investigate his

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