{"id":1504,"date":"2018-01-19T00:48:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T00:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerinbensonlawyers.com.au\/resources\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2018-01-19T00:48:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T00:48:51","slug":"act-rates-and-land-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerinbensonlawyers.com.au\/resources\/act-rates-and-land-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT Rates and Land Tax\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe number of apartment developments in the ACT is significantly increasing in all suburbs as part of a policy of the ACT Government to increase housing density near town centres and along transport corridors.\u00a0 Already signs of these developments can be seen as residential buildings in excess of 6 storeys, and even as high as 20+ storeys, become evident in areas such as Belconnen, Kingston\/Barton, Woden, Gungahlin, Dickson, Braddon, Tuggeranong and the new suburbs in Molonglo. Click here<\/a> to read an article published in the Canberra Times on the dramatic fall in Canberra house approvals over five years as unit approvals increase.<\/p>\n

The stated objective of the ACT Government is to have more than half of Canberra\u2019s dwellings in the form of strata developments as a means of reducing government infrastructure costs. This policy will also increase their revenue in rates and land taxes.<\/p>\n

The ACT branch of the Owners Corporation Network (OCN) has joined with several other organisations to promote and lodge a petition with the ACT Legislative Assembly. The petition puts forward a number of concerns in relation to the above policy.\u00a0 If you are interested in this issue, click here<\/a> to view and sign the petition.<\/p>\n

The petition will be presented to the ACT Legislative Assembly on or about 13 February 2018.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The number of apartment developments in the ACT is significantly increasing in all suburbs as part of a policy of the ACT Government to increase housing density near town centres and along transport corridors.\u00a0 Already signs of these developments can be seen as residential buildings in excess of 6 storeys, and even as high as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,67,35],"tags":[453,454,455,456,457,458],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-act","category-news-and-publications","category-recent-news","tag-act-rates-and-land-tax","tag-fall-in-act-housing-developments","tag-increase-in-act-apartment-developments","tag-land-tax","tag-petition-to-reverse-strata-rates-calculations","tag-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerinbensonlawyers.com.au\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerinbensonlawyers.com.au\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerinbensonlawyers.com.au\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerinbensonlawyers.com.au\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerinbensonlawyers.com.au\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kerinbensonlawyers.com.au\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerinbensonlawyers.com.au\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerinbensonlawyers.com.au\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerinbensonlawyers.com.au\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}