No panacea: Rate-capping in South Australian local government

Dollery, B; McQuestin, D

No panacea: Rate-capping in South Australian local government

Dollery, B McQuestin, D

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Publisher:: Elsevier BV
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Economic Analysis and Policy, 2017, 56, pp. 79-85
Issue Date:: 2017-12-01

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dc.contributor.author	Dollery, B
dc.contributor.author	McQuestin, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0137-0260
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-25T02:01:26Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-25T02:01:26Z
dc.date.issued	2017-12-01
dc.identifier.citation	Economic Analysis and Policy, 2017, 56, pp. 79-85
dc.identifier.issn	0313-5926
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/162655
dc.description.abstract	State-imposed limitations on local government revenue and expenditure represent an especially draconian form of regulation. In Australian local government, New South Wales (NSW) has a longstanding rate-pegging regime, the Northern Territory (NT) caps mining and pastoral rates and Victoria has just implemented rate-capping. In addition, recent attempts have been made to introduce rate-pegging into South Australia (SA). This paper empirically assesses the likely impact of a rate-cap in SA local government by comparing the performance of SA with its NSW counterparts on three separate key measures (revenue effort, financial sustainability and efficiency) for the period 2013 to 2016. The paper demonstrates that – by comparison with NSW – SA municipalities’ exhibit superior performance on these measures. The empirical evidence presented in the paper demonstrates that rate-pegging should not be imposed on SA local government and instead other more promising policies considered.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Elsevier BV
dc.relation.ispartof	Economic Analysis and Policy
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.eap.2017.06.003
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	14 Economics
dc.title	No panacea: Rate-capping in South Australian local government
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	56
utslib.for	14 Economics
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/lnstitute for Public Policy and Governance
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dc.date.updated	2022-10-25T02:01:25Z
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	56

Abstract:

State-imposed limitations on local government revenue and expenditure represent an especially draconian form of regulation. In Australian local government, New South Wales (NSW) has a longstanding rate-pegging regime, the Northern Territory (NT) caps mining and pastoral rates and Victoria has just implemented rate-capping. In addition, recent attempts have been made to introduce rate-pegging into South Australia (SA). This paper empirically assesses the likely impact of a rate-cap in SA local government by comparing the performance of SA with its NSW counterparts on three separate key measures (revenue effort, financial sustainability and efficiency) for the period 2013 to 2016. The paper demonstrates that – by comparison with NSW – SA municipalities’ exhibit superior performance on these measures. The empirical evidence presented in the paper demonstrates that rate-pegging should not be imposed on SA local government and instead other more promising policies considered.

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