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Rate Books, 1974-1992 [City of Sydney]

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Unique IDAS-0033Start dateBetween 1st January 1974 and 31st December 1992Start date qualifiercircaFormatLoose PapersShort descriptionThis series of Rate Books, 1974-1992, are printouts which duplicate the top half of the rates notice. They form the primary evidence of the service of rates on rate-payers and are one of three main operational paper records of the Rates Section. Paper printouts ceased to be produced after 1992.DescriptionThis series of Rate Books, 1974-1992, are printouts which duplicate the top half of the rates notice. They form the primary evidence of the service of rates on rate payers and are one of three main operational paper records of the Rates Section. Paper printouts ceased to be produced after 1992.

At the beginning of the year the rates notices for all properties which are coded ‘ratable’ are printed from the Rates File and posted out. At the same time the computer prints a duplicate of the top half of the rates notices in report form in assessment number order in two sequences:
-one for the City of Sydney area denoted by the authority code 208, and
-one for the former South Sydney Municipal Council area, denoted by code 211.

These are held in green binders and are referred to as the Rate Books. The assessment number order is determined by the street address of properties (alphabetical by street).

The Rate Books are printed from the Rate File (computer) which records the rates payable on properties and all financial transactions relating to the payment of rates. The year's transactions are also recorded on microfilm from a tape of the Rate File, made after the file is closed off for the year. This is used as a major reference tool by the Rates Section in conjunction with a microfilm of the Rate Books themselves.

The Rate Book printouts are headed:
‘Report P1. The Council of the City of Sydney - Rates Book - rates levied for the year … posted (date), due date and page no’. There are two columns of entries. For each entry the following information is recorded: name and postal address of the ratepayer; assessment number; address of the property; date of service of the rate notice; valuation for rating purposes; rate (in the dollar); current rates payable; credit (if any); total payment due.

Occasionally entries in the Rate Books will be annotated to indicate a change of ownership, in which case a transfer notice number will be written on the entry.

Since 1984 rates notices which are served after the general levying of rates at the beginning of the year are pasted into a supplementary volume (called ‘late serves’) in chronological order by date of service. Formerly late-served rate notices were attached to the Rate Books in assessment number order.

The operations of the Valuation and Rates Branch were computerised in 1972 but it was not until 1974 that the new system became fully operational. Immediately before the Rate Books were produced as computer printout, it seems that the ‘Rate Books’ took the form of bound duplicate notices. These are not extant. The Rates Branch seems to have regarded the Valuation Lists (AS-0031), and the subsequent series Valuer-General's Valuation Books (AS-0032) as the permanent record.

The Rate Books are alphabetical within each year.
LanguageEnglish (eng)

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1983/4174-5285: Cook Rd - Denham St

1983/2978-4172: Carrington St - Commonwealth St

1983/1506-2975: Boundary St - Carlton St

1983/2-1503: Abercrombie St - Boronia St

1982/16221-End: Waterloo St - End

1982/14640-16211: South Dowling St - Ward Ave

1982/13473-14638: Ridge St - Sophia St

1982/11517-13471: Norman St - Richards Ave

1982/9816-11515: Little Selwyn St - Nobb St

1982/7607-9814: Hannam St - Little Riley St

1982/5954-7597: English St - Hackett St

1982/4955-5951: Dalgety Rd - Elizabeth Bay Rd

1982/3552-4946: City Rd - Cunningham St

1982/1550-3547: Bourke St - Circular Quay West

1982/2-1548: Abercrombie St - Boundary St

1981/15832-End: Victoria St - End

1981/14300-15805: Seale St - Verona St

1981/13269-14298: Reiby Pl - Scott St

1981/11549-13267: Oatley Rd - Regent St, Paddington

1981/10405-11547: Macleay St - Norton St

1981/9073-10403: Kimber La - Mackey St

1981/7214-9071: Goodlet La - Kidman Tce

1981/5891-7212: Elizabeth Bay Rd - Goodchap St

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Rate Books, 1844-1928 [Municipal Council of Sydney]

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Public access statusClosed to public access

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Source system ID33System of arrangementAlphabetical

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Digitisation statusNot digitised

Data Quality

Authenticity & integrityThese are the printouts of Rate Books by the Council of the City of Sydney. The record has been held in the Council’s custody and has a high level of authenticity. Users should be aware that this is an historical record and the language used within the record was the language of the time it was captured, and may not reflect current community values or expectations.

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