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The determination provides our assessment and decision on Port Stephens Council's 2022-23 additional special variation application.

This media release provides information on our assessment of special rate variation applications from Port Stephens, Muswellbrook and Dungog Councils for 2019-20.

IPART has assessed the council’s application against the criteria in the Office of Local Government (OLG) Guidelines. This report sets out our decision, and explains how and why we reached that decision.

This media release provides information on our assessment of special rate variation applications from Dungog, Port Stephens and Muswellbrook for 2019-20.

This media release provides information on our assessment of special rate variation applications from Muswellbrook, Port Stephens and Dungog Councils for 2019-20.

Thirteen councils across NSW have applied to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) for a special variation to increase their income from rates above the rate peg (details in table below).

The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has announced its decisions on 17 NSW council applications for special variations to increase their general income by more than the rate peg (details in Table 1 below).