Rates calculator

Your rates help Council maintain our beautiful region and provide income to run essential community services and infrastructure.

The rates calculator will calculate an estimate for two amounts:

• the first amount is your current rates amount for 2023/24
• the second amount being the estimated rates amount for 2024/25

Important information about your recent Notice of Valuation

The Valuer General issues new land values to councils to use in setting rates at least every three years. The land valuation aims to reflect the market value of the land only, as if sold on 1 July 2022 (the base date).

Council is currently using valuations with a base date of 1 July 2022 - these valuations will be used for the 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 rating years.

Council’s total rates income can only be increased by a maximum of 4.5% in 2024/25, which is the rate peg percentage for Shoalhaven City Council as set by the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART).

Your annual rate account shows a mix of 'rates' lines and 'charge' lines. The rate peg of 4.5% only applies to the ordinary rates (Residential, Business or Farmland), domestic waste and garbage charge lines are not subject to the 4.5% rate peg.

Information you will need

To calculate an estimate of your rates for the coming 2024/25 rating year, you will need to know your existing land value - this was originally mailed to you by the NSW Valuer General in April 2023.

You can access your land values online via the NSW Valuer General's website.

Your rate notice for the last year will also show your current land value.

How to use the calculator

Step 1. Enter your land value into the calculator below

• insert the land value from your July 2023/24 rate notice in the first land value box
• insert the same land value (repeat the entry), in the second land value box

Please note: You will only need to put a different value in the second box when your land value changes. The next land value change by the Valuer General is not due until early 2026 (for the 2025 base date).

Step 2. Select your property type

Choose from 'Residential', 'Business' and 'Farmland'.

Step 3. Select your bin service and stormwater charge (if residential)

• select the bin size for the waste service charged, or ‘No bin service’ if service is not charged
• select ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ if stormwater is charged and ‘Strata’ if your property is part of a strata complex

Get your rates estimate