Cost Shifting 2023:  How State Costs Eat Council Rates

Cost Shifting 2023: How State Costs Eat Council Rates, by independent consultants Morrison Low, reveals the heavy financial burden carried by NSW councils and communities forced to assume ever-greater responsibility for state government services and infrastructure.

That burden is now valued at more than $1.36 billion per year, up 78 per cent from $820 million per year in just over five years and is the equivalent to more than $460 per ratepayer annually.

Cost Shifting 2023:  How State Costs Eat Council Rates