Paying your rates

If you pay by direct debit, the correct amount you need to pay at each instalment is calculated for you.

Complete the form in the Rates Easy Pay form and send it to us at 16 Cobham Court, Porirua 5240.

Please note: write your surname in the Payer Particulars section, your address in the Payer Code section, and your rate account number in the Payer Reference section.

Our online portal makes it easy to pay your rates with your credit card, you will need your Account Number from your rates instalment notice to make a payment.

Click here to pay your rates by credit card.

Use your online bank account to set up PCC RATES as a bill payment option.

Make sure you include the account number from your rates notice with the payment details. 

Email rates@poriruacity.govt.nz to tell us you’re going to be paying by automatic payment. Then we’ll know not to charge a late payment penalty if your funds aren’t transferred on the due date because it’s a weekend or public holiday.

Remember to update your automatic payment each year to adjust for any change to the amount of rates you’ll pay.

Use your online bank account to make a payment. Search for PORIRUA CITY COUNCIL – RATES as a new payee. 

Remember to record the account number from your rates notice with your payment details. (You can also use the Property Search to find your account number.)

Pay at our Customer Services Centre at 16 Cobham Court, Porirua, or at any NZ Post Shop.

1. The prize draw for the rates credit is limited to a maximum of $500 per quarter.  There is only one prize per quarter.
2. Each rateable property which meets the our criteria for the prize draw will be automatically entered in to the draw with once chance to win.
3. To be eligible for the draw, payments on the rate account must be up to date.
4. To be eligible for the $350 prize, the property's rates invoice for the current rate instalment must be successfully delivered to the email address advised to us by the ratepayer.
5. To be eligible for the additional prize of $150, the property's rates invoice for the current rate instalment must be successfully delivered to the email address advised to us by the ratepayer, and the property must have an authorised direct debit arrangement in place for the current rate instalment.
6. Properties owned by Elected Members and their spouses/partners, or Council staff and their spouses/partners are excluded from the prize draw.
7. The prize draw will be made at our offices by a Justice of the Peace each quarter and the winner will be advised by email of the amount of their prize to be credited to their rates account.
8. The prize must be credited to the rates account; it cannot be paid to the ratepayer or transferred to another property.
9. We will publicise the prize draw each quarter.  It is at the discretion of the winning ratepayer as to whether their identity is publicised in that process.
10. These terms and conditions were set in April 2016 and we reserve the right to change them at any time.  Any changes will be advertised by public notice in the local newspapers circulated in Porirua City.