Councils lose rates on land
Parliamentary reporter The Golden Bay County Council and Buller County Council want compensation for rates lost when private land is bought by the Government.
they plan to take their case to the Minister of Forests (Mr Elworthy) after the purchase by the Forest Service of 4400 ha of native forest formerly owned by the Taitapu Estate. With the growth of forestry and with land being bought for the national park and parks and reserves, the Golden Bay County Council says that ’it can now levy rates on only 28 per cent of the land in its territory.
The Government pays no rates on Crown land. Yet Crown land still requires council services, the council says. In Golden Bay, thousands of holiday-makers use the road into Totaranui as access to Abel Tasman National Park.
Neither they nor the Crown pay towards the council's share of the cost of road maintenance, the council says. ~
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