r/interesting • u/Wonderfulhumanss • 4d ago

SOCIETY The Zammit family refused to sell their five acre property as an entire Sydney suburb was built around them

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u/No_Category_9888 4d ago

We have council rates on Australia, they are a yearly payment (tax basically) that varies in cost based on property value. So they will be paying a lot of rates for this property

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u/Academic-Bat-8002 4d ago

How often do you guys get yours revalued? It’s 3 years over the ditch.

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u/UsuallyWhirlwind 4d ago

In the UK the rates were set in 1991 and haven’t been touched since.

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u/PhiCloud 4d ago

You need a license to touch the rates and the guy who has the rate touching license retired

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u/Switch-Axe-Abuse 2d ago

Or just imminent domain it to take your house out from under you with a choice of $5 coupon or nothing.

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u/MildMannered_BearJew 4d ago

Seems reasonable, that’s a lot of land they’re using

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u/WetEmotions 4d ago

Wasting. It's a lot of land they are wasting by not using it for something good like trees, bushes, wild flowers, anything but monoculture lawn.

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u/MildMannered_BearJew 4d ago

I mean if they are paying for the land use (ie, they are paying tax on the value of the land they are using), then I don’t see a problem.

They’ve decided how they want to use their land. In exchange, society gets paid for letting them use it. Everyone wins

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u/Ionel1-The-Impaler 4d ago

“Wasting” when it’s either this or a data center.