Ryan Bridge: Rate caps are happening, but will they work?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Dec 1, 2025 · 2m · transcript

This rates cap is popular politics, no doubt, and local government needs a good kick in the pants.

But does a 2-4% band simply mean we're going to pay more in other fees?

Rates aren't the only way these guys make money off us, we also pay for specific things like resource and building consents, LIM requests, dog registrations, and campgrounds.

Will hairdressers have to pay more to register under the Health Act? Yes, this is a thing, and in Kaipara, for example, it'll cost your business $423 bucks, thank you very much.

Will we pay more for a burial plot at the local cemetery? That's another…