Plans for the new system which will enact an Islandwide rate to accompany the existing parish rate have been lodged au Greffe by the Finance and Economics Committee for debate by the States.
They expect domestic ratepayers in St Helier, St Clement and St Saviour to get discounts of between eight and 14 per cent; those elsewhere to face an average increase of about five per cent and commercial – or non-domestic – ratepayers to see increases of between 22 and 69 per cent.
Finance want the non-parish proportion to be split evenly between domestic and commercial ratepayers.
The committee have lodged a draft of the new law, which they want to come into force by the end of the year.
