In Western Australia NFP villages are spared paying council rates but this is being challenged by the City of Stirling, which claims it is losing $1.2 million in revenue each year. Their argument is that many NFP villages are in fact luxurious with tenants not qualifying for charitable use. Elsewhere in Australia residents are arguing they should not be paying council rates as villages pay for their own roads, lighting and garbage collection. A WA loss would be a setback for this argument.
ATO plans to charge GST on manufactured home parks scrapped
A concerted effort by the Residents Association of manufactured home parks has headed off the ATO which had planned to impose GST in mobile homes. This would have added 10% to the cost of the purchase of a home