The City Of Launceston will discuss whether to collect fire service rates for retirements homes at its meeting on Monday.
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The council has until now exempted retirement homes from these service rates as it does with general rates.
Corporate services director Michael Tidey in a report to alderman wrote that it was believed that independent living units within retirement homes did not meet the requirements for a statutory exemption.
“The application of service rates on a consistent basis is an important for two policy reasons,” he said.
“Firstly, in the terms of the equity of everyone who can access the services contributing to its cost and secondly to do otherwise creates an inequity whereby ratepayers with properties of similar value, do not make the same contribution for the same service - one funds the other.”
He has recommended that the council cease remission of fire service rates from July 1
The application of fire service rates is expected to raise $100,000 from retirement homes.
