Your council rates and charges in Tasman help deliver more than 100 services across our community. These services, though varying in visibility, are accessible to you, your whānau, friends, and all community members at every phase of life.
These include essential infrastructure like roads, footpaths, water and wastewater, and also amenities like parks, libraries, and community facilities. Additionally, rates support social housing, safety, and regulatory and compliance services.
To make sure we can keep providing the necessary services and infrastructure, we rely on rates payments coming in on time – unfortunately this means we cannot delay or stop collecting them altogether, even following significant weather events.
After community consultation, hearings and deliberations, we adopted our Annual Plan for the coming year, with an average rates revenue increase of 8.9%.
Your property’s actual rates increase may be higher or lower depending on location and services, e.g. water and wastewater. It also depends on your location and whether it is residential, commercial or rural.
We appreciate that there are times and circumstances when paying your instalments may be challenging. The aftermath of recent weather events is one of those situations.
There are a number of ways we can help you ease the burden and spread the payments – please get in touch with us to discuss your options.
We have a list of yellow and red-stickered properties and will be working with these property owners directly.
There is a policy to allow us, at our discretion, to remit rates charged on any rating unit used for residential purposes if the land has been detrimentally affected by natural disaster (erosion, falling debris, subsidence, slippage, inundation, or earthquake) rendering dwellings or buildings uninhabitable for more than 30 days and requiring activities carried out on the land to cease.
The aim of the Policy is to allow us to consider remitting rates for those ratepayers most adversely affected. The conditions and criteria are in the Rates Remission Policy on our website.
Some specific conditions and criteria include:
Check out this page to learn more and apply.
We understand that properties impacted by the June/July storms may affect valuations.
Tasman District Council will assess properties in the affected zones and are working with QV to reassess valuations for identified properties. We will be in touch with those property owners.
You may wish to take independent valuation advice which will be at your expense.
In principle, if there is a decrease in value, we will reassess current year rates based on the new value and adjust rates accordingly.
This process will take some time, and you are required to pay your existing rates on time. Any readjustment will be retrospectively applied if approved.
If you have not heard from us, please use this form(external link) to share details and we will be in touch. It’s important Council collates this information, so we can ensure your property is on the list and stay in touch.
This short video provides an overview of your rates - what goes into your bill and how revaluations can affect what you pay.
Funding Impact Statement including rating maps 2025-26 (pdf 28 MB)
Learn more about rates information brochure for the 2025-26 year (pdf 622 KB)
Rates assessment detailed information for the 2025-26 year (pdf 82 KB)
View a list of rates forms for remissions, rebates and more.(external link)
