How to pay your rates

Pay your rates and water accounts using a credit or debit card through our secure payment gateway.

Before making a payment

• We do not collect or save credit card information.
• Allow enough time for your payment to get to us by the due date to avoid a late payment penalty.
• You will be sent a payment confirmation if you provide an email address.
• If you use a credit card issued outside New Zealand, your card issuer may charge currency conversion and other fees.
• Contact your bank for fee information.
• There is no need to register or create an account.

To make a payment online, please follow these steps:

Payments can be made using Visa or MasterCard cards through our secure payment gateway.

Make sure you have:

• For online payments, you will only need the first seven digits of the account number, leaving out RA or WA and any hyphen, slash or space. eg (RA-2141921-9 is entered as 2141921)
•  Payments for each rates and/or water account will need to be entered separately in the payment gateway to ensure payments are allocated to the correct accounts.
• The total of the entered accounts and relevant payment amounts will then be charged to your card/account.

Go to the payment gateway to make your payment.

Secure payment

Payments can be made at any of the Council Service Centres or i-SITEs during opening hours.  You can also make payments at either an ASB bank or NZ Postshop. 

Many banks also operate smart automatic teller machines.  These allow customers to deposit funds, open accounts, transfer money and perform other transactions normally done at a bank branch.  Check with your bank for the nearest location.

Add Council as a payee for rates and water on your bank account using these account details:

•  Account name: Far North District Council
• Bank: ASB Bank, Corporate Branch, Auckland
• Account number: 12-3244-0022509-03

The payment reference should be the RA or WA number on the invoice (leaving out any hyphen, slash or space)

For international money transfers, please use ASB Swift Code ASBBNZ2A

If you have a rate account (RA) and a water account (WA), two separate payments will be required so that the payments can be allocated to the correct accounts.

An automatic payment can be set up with your bank to make regular payments for your rates and water accounts. 

Instalment amounts must be fully paid by the instalment due date or penalties will be incurred.

Rates EasyPay is our direct debit system that allows you to spread payments over the entire rating year (July to June). Payments can be made weekly, fortnightly, monthly, by instalment due date, or annually on 20 August. To set up a direct debit, follow these steps.

Rates instalment dates

Water rates instalment dates