Rates and payments

Brisbane City Council issues rate accounts quarterly. Find out how Council calculates rates and how to pay your rates, bills, fines or infringements. 

Pay your rates now through Council's online payment service
or discover other ways to pay.

You can also read a rates summary of the 2024-25 budget.

Competition - switch to paperless billing

Go paperless by 1 December 2024 to save and go in the draw to win! If you register for email billing between 16 September-1 December 2024, you automatically go into the draw to win one of 20 $100 gift cards. Terms and conditions apply. 

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Switch to paperless billing and access your rate accounts anytime, anywhere, from your email account.

Council makes it quick and easy to pay your rates with a variety of payment options. Pay your rates using Council's online payment service or find out about other payment options. You can also choose to donate $15 to the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Trust to help those in need.

Pay bills, permit renewals, fines and infringements using Council's online payment service. You need a Visa or Mastercard to pay online direct to Council.

Find out how rates are calculated, including information on land valuations, averaging, rating categories and other charges.

Receive your Council rate accounts online via your internet banking provider, using BPAY View.

Find out how to update details on your rate account, including a change of name, postal address or ownership details.

A surcharge may apply when using a credit or debit card. The surcharge does not apply to payments made using BPAY.

Starting from 1 December 2024 for commercial notices and 1 January 2025 for residential notices, Council will be implementing a new paper bill fee of $1.98 GST inclusive for all printed rates notices.

Council charges a Rate Account and Services Establishment Fee to establish a new rate account when a property transfers ownership. An exemption from the fee is available if you meet certain criteria.

Council offers rebates to eligible ratepayers, including pensioners.

Find out how to complete a Rate Account Authority form for someone to make changes to your rate account.

If you are having difficulty paying your rates, contact Council to discuss available options.

Council applies a parity factor for Community Titles Scheme properties. This is used to apply a loading to the general rates component of a rate account.

Council has introduced rating categories for houses and units where an owner lives on a property and uses a room/s for paid guest accommodation and where an owner rents their property to paying guests and does not live there. 

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