You can choose to receive your rates notice electronically by email. Learn more about your electronic rates and waste (tip) vouchers and how to sign-up.
Council rates are a property based tax. Therefore, the rates you pay are based on the value of the property you own.
Learn more about how to pay your rates in person, online, BPay, by mail, at the Post Office, by phone or direct debit arrangement. When are rates due, when will you get your rates notice and more.
View our Rates Forms such as Name Change, Address Change, Personal Authority, Company Authority, Land Information Certificates, Rebates and more.
Learn more about: land sustainability rebates, heritage rebates, pension concessions (municipal rates concessions).
The provisions of the Valuation of Land Act 1960 specify that all Victorian Councils are required to separately rate each part of a property that is able to be separately occupied.
Property valuations are used to calculate how much you pay in rates. Government legislation requires the Council to assess the value of all properties every two years.
We are committed to ensuring that surplus Shire owned land is made available for redevelopment and proceeds of land sales are reinvested.
We recognise that some ratepayers may have difficulty paying rates and as a result has available the following measures of assistance.