Tomorrow, the Queenstown Lakes District Council will be asked to adopt a solution to even out the rates collected across the district.
The solution follows a hearing on October 19 to consider public submissions after the council in August identified "rates anomalies".
Council finance general manager Stewart Burns said the proposal would make rates fairer.
"We discovered that the rating structure we moved to after the rates review was not delivering all of the results we had intended.
"It was not equitable to some ratepayers and we decided to fix it before instalment two," Mr Burns said.
The submission number on the replacement proposal was low compared with the number of queries the council had received - 34 submissions with nine in support and 25 in opposition, Mr Burns said.
The total amount of rates the council collects will not change but some costs will be reallocated among ratepayers.
"Given that ratepayers have now paid instalment one, if the recommendation is adopted, we will need to reconcile any changes to individual rates over the remaining three instalments."
In a report to be discussed at a general council meeting tomorrow, Mr Burns said"the only changes from the statement of proposal are minor increases" for the accommodation sector inthe Regulatory and Governance charge, an increase of $6, and an increase of $22 for the Recreation and Events charge.
"This increase is required to counter the effect of remissions which had previously not been taken account of," he said.
Three rates were proposed to be reduced: recreation and events, governance, and regulatory. These had already been advised in the original replacement proposal, he said.
Instalment two is due to be invoiced late next month.
