CATEGORY 1 - STATEMENT OF OCCUPANCY
Townsville City Council offers a different rating category to ratepayers who own and occupy a property as their residential principal place of residence. For details of this please refer to the Schedule of Rates and Charges which is available on Council's website.
To be eligible applicants must meet the criteria below:
▪ This category is restricted to the owner-occupiers’ residential principal place of residence only (ie: to one property only)
▪ This category applies to land held in the name of a natural person and does not apply to land held in Trustee, Company, Firm, Corporate or other like legal entity ownership
▪ One of the owners must be living permanently on the property, or
▪ The property must be in the name of a deceased or bankrupt estate and occupied by a surviving spouse or immediate family, or
▪ The owner is absent on health grounds, such as being a patient in a nursing home or living with family or friends and the property is not being rented
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