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WA Not For Profit villages face being hit with council rates

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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.