Your rates are based on your property valuation and rating category. Properties are categorised as either Residential, Business or a business sub-category (Manly CBD, Warringah Mall, Warriewood Square, Strata Storage Units), or Farmland based on the property’s characteristics and use.

Search for your property’s valuation and rating category.

For each rating category we set an ad valorem rate (an amount of cents charged for every $1 of land value) and a minimum rate where appropriate. Your rates will be the higher of the minimum rate or your land value multiplied by the ad valorem rate (divided by 100 to convert the rate from cents to dollars).

A minimum rate applies on properties whose land valuation is equal to or lower that the land value cut-off threshold. The land value threshold to determine whether a minimum or ad valorem rate applies is determined by a ratio of the minimum rate and the ad valorem rate being: Minimum rate divided by the ad valorem rate = land value threshold. Properties with valuations equal to or lower than the land value threshold will pay the minimum rate and properties whose land value is greater than the threshold will pay the ad valorem rate.

Business properties within the Manly and Balgowlah business centres also pay an additional Special Rate to fund higher levels of service and specific works within these business centres. These Special Rates are also calculated based on your land value multiplied by an additional ad valorem rate (divided by 100 to convert the rate from cents to dollars). There is no minimum amount payable for Special Rates.

Rates are set by the Council each year through our annual budget process, with changes in total rates income capped by the IPART's rate peg (based on their measure of price and productivity changes over a year for an average Council).

Rates and Charges History

This Rates enquiry tool will provide details of the current and historic Council rates and charges for the current financial year and up to four (4) prior financial years.

Please note this an estimate only and is subject to change. It does not reflect amounts due, rebates or other adjustments, and may not reflect all actual charges.

Please note that the estimate cannot be substituted for actual Rates Notices or Certificates from Council and the Council cannot be held liable for an incorrect estimate.

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Unable to find your address? Please check the property address listed on your recent rates notice as some properties may have an alternative name. Properties that have recently been subdivided or consolidated or that are undergoing rating or valuation changes may not be available. Please contact our Rates Team to assist you.

All ratepayers in the same category or sub-category with the same land value pay the same for the same level of Council services.

The NSW Valuer General is responsible for determining land valuations and provides these valuations for councils to use when assessing rates. Council cannot amend these land valuations and must rely on the valuations supplied by the Valuer General.

Your land value will be shown on your rates notice or search for your property land value.

If you have concerns relating to your new property valuation, you can lodge an objection online with the Valuer General or contact them on:

• Phone: 1800 110 038
• Website: www.valuergeneral.nsw.gov.au
• Email: valuationenquiry@property.nsw.gov.au

If the Valuer General amends your land valuation they will advise Council of the new valuation relating to your property and if required your rates will be amended.

The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) annually reviews council rates and charges and sets the maximum increase councils can apply to their general income from these charges.

This cap is called the ‘rate peg’ and IPART considers inflation driven cost increases to Council, like fuel, electricity and construction materials, in determining the appropriate rate peg each year. This increase ensures councils can maintain existing services and infrastructure at sustainable levels.

Councils can apply to IPART for special variations to the rate peg.

More information on the rate peg is available on the IPART’s website.

Councils can apply to IPART for special variations to the rate peg.

For 2022/23 an additional special variation process was put in place under which IPART approved an increase of 2.4% for Council. As noted by IPART the latest rate peg was determined in the low inflation environment at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and since then, high inflation and global uncertainty increased councils’ costs. Applications were assessed against guidelines provided by the Office of Local Government. The guidelines required councils to show that they had budgeted for higher income than that provided by the rate peg and that they need the additional money to deliver on the projects they have already planned and included in their budgets.

The increase allowed by IPART relates to council income in total - not to individual rates assessments.

Individual rates are also affected by other factors such as changes to land valuations which are independently assessed every three years.

Overall council income can’t exceed more than the rate peg increase (or a special rate variation approved by IPART) but land valuations may change how that increase is distributed across the council area.