Greater Wellington Rates for Businesses Survey

Greater Wellington (Greater Wellington Regional Council) is looking to improve its understanding of how its current rates impact our business community. This information will help improve our decision-making process throughout the next review the Revenue and Financing Policy.

Over 550,000 people live, work and play here, making our region ethnically and culturally diverse, rich and vibrant. Our role is to meet the current and future needs of communities with good-quality infrastructure and services in a way that is most cost effective for households and businesses. We carefully balance sustainability with economic growth, protecting our environment while also meeting the cultural, social and economic needs of our communities.

Our Revenue and Financing Policy is about where the funding (money) will come from, and how Greater Wellington will share the costs of services across the region, and among different groups of ratepayers. We are guided by legislation, including the Local Government (Rating) Act 2002, that requires local authorities to be accountable and to ensure that their decision making processes are open to the influence and scrutiny of our communities.

We invite you, as business owners or managers, to take this survey (and share it) to help us build our understanding of how businesses in our region are impacted by rates, and the effects they have on your decisions to do business here.

If you would like to contact us directly, please email rfp@gw.govt.nz and we will respond as soon as we can.