Have TT Filing Fees Changed?

[Perry]

Ody's 10-month odyssey: Renter reunited with cat after timely Tenancy Tribunal intervention
1 Oct 2022

It took ten months, several false starts and a trip to the Tenancy Tribunal . . .

Alistair and Fiona Gillespie, the owners of the apartment, had given permission for Netana-Rakete to keep a cat. When they learned the body corporate committee had turned down the application, they . . . decided to take the dispute to the Tenancy Tribunal, on their tenant’s behalf. “All the paper work was bloody rough,” Alistair Gillespie said. It wasn’t cheap either – coming to $3300 for the filing fee.

Bloody hell!!

[artemis]

Hi there Perry. Different fees for Body Corporate applications.

[Perry]

There is? I did not know that. Where's the reference for that, Artemis?

In this case, was it not two citizens applying against a body corporate?

How much it costs to apply

The application fee is $20.44 (including GST).

If you are the one making the application, you pay the fee.

[John the builder]

its under the Unit Titles act not the RTA. They will refund if the hearing isnt held as this application often wakes the BC up?

[Perry]

Tricky. Thanks. Something new I've learned today.

[artemis]

https://www.unittitles.govt.nz/resolving-issues-and-disputes-in-unit-titles/tenancy-tribunal-process-for-unit-titles-disputes/

[Perry]

Category 1 applications are average to high complexity and are likely to involve a hearing before the Tribunal. Application Fee: $3,300 including GST.

Gives us an idea of the massive subsidy applied to RTA TT Kangaroo Kourt Hearings, eh?

[artemis]

Tenancy hearings mainly funded by investment return on tenant bond money. Bonds spend power eaten away by inflation every year of course.

[Perry]

Given the recent past few years investment interest situation, I wonder if "mainly" applied?

And, of course, helped by the millions of unclaimed tenant bonds that the (be kind to tenants) gummint appropriates for its own benefit.