Rates

  • Rural news in brief

    A call for councils to avoid rate rises; crop disease guides released; and help controlling gorse.

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  • Rate increase is a concern for residents

    Ratepayers have pleaded with Colac Otway Shire Councillors to drop plans for a rate rise, in what one councillor described as the “toughest” budget in history.

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  • SHARE THE LOAD: Proposal to charge higher rates for corporate farms

    A former Colac Otway mayor wants the council to charge higher rates for foreign-owned and corporate-owned farmland, as a way of reducing residents’ rates burden.

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  • Council plans lowest rate rise in 10 years

    COLAC OTWAY Shire Council is proposing the lowest increase in rates and charges in a decade while also budgeting for its second highest spend on capital works next financial year.

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  • Councillor warns of 30% rate rise

    A COLAC Otway Shire councillor says Elliminyt and Colac residents could discover a 30-per-cent price increase when they open their 2014-15 rates notices.

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  • Lowest rate rise in decade

    COLAC Otway Shire Council’s next rate rise could be its lowest in a decade.

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  • Council overhauls rating system

    FARM land will continue to attract the lowest rate in the dollar under Colac Otway Shire Council’s latest rates overhaul.

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  • Probe into $2-million blowout

    COLAC Otway Shire Council will launch an internal inquiry into the Bluewater Fitness Centre’s $2-million budget blowout, which a councillor has described as “financially irresponsible”.

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