Brown needs to check his own record on rates

The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is challenging Mayor Wayne Brown’s misleading claim that a rates cap would only save Auckland households the equivalent of a can of baked beans a month.

Josh Van Veen, spokesman for the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance, says:

“The numbers simply do not lie. In Auckland, average residential rates went up 20.9 percent between 2022 and 2025, from $2,992 to $3,617.33. A 2-4 percent rates cap would have saved the average Auckland household between $251.73 and $442.19 over the last three years.”

“It’s all laid out in the Rates Cap Savings Dashboard, using Auckland Council’s own numbers.”