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In sydney do you pay council tax or land tax if you own or rent??
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You pay rates (council tax) if you own....nothing if you rent....the landlord pays.
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Your rates also include your water bill btw.
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excellent thanks
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mistake post! edit!

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And, depending on the area, they will be a lot less.

My 1 bed apartment in Canterbury town centre cost me about 1200 POUNDS a year.

My place in Terrigal, 200 metres from the beach, 3 bed, double garage and ten times the size of my flat in the UK costs me about half that!
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that is alot cheaper!!!
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And you (can have to) pay land tax as well if you are a landlord....
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The council rates do not include water rates. The water rates are separate it is just that the landlord will usually pay council, water and strata/maintenance fees. All of this is of course factored into rentals by landlords.

Tenants are required to pay eletricity, gas, telephone and other utilities. If you own you will have to pay all of it.
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Thanks that makes renting in Sdyney cheaper then where i am now in england.
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Originally Posted by Kennethb
Thanks that makes renting in Sdyney cheaper then where i am now in england.
Probably not that much different in terms of percentage of your income I would suspect. All depends on where you go of course, some parts of Sydney will be far more expensive and other parts (will you really want to live there???) may be dirt cheap.
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does anyone know the area Artarmon?? this is near where i would work so to save money i was thinking to live within walking distance!! Been to Sdyney but did not see this area.
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Originally Posted by Bootle
The council rates do not include water rates. The water rates are separate it is just that the landlord will usually pay council, water and strata/maintenance fees. All of this is of course factored into rentals by landlords.

Tenants are required to pay eletricity, gas, telephone and other utilities. If you own you will have to pay all of it.
Depends on the area - some areas the water/sewer services are run by teh COuncil, so they usually send you ONE rates bill with everything on it.

In other areas there are seperate water authorities (Hunter Water which deals with the enture Lower Hunter Valley for example) and they'll send seperate bills to the Council (well atleast they used to).

Some tenants have to pay water rates - but tenants never have to pay Council rates (unless the landlord is shonky)
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Originally Posted by Kennethb
In sydney do you pay council tax or land tax if you own or rent??
In NSW you may pay both: if you are sitting on land and not building you will pay most of the rates plus a tax every year on the land as valued each year.
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We pay $2100 per year for a 600m² home, with pool, on 3 acres. This includes water rates. The only other bills we get are Electricity and Telephone. We're 20km North of Brisbane CBD.

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