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I don't even know what a council rate is :)

Money we have to pay the local council yearly for bins and other associated city services. I remember looking into precisely what they were supposed to be for about a hundred million years ago, can't remember any of it now XD Maybe you're lucky and don't have to pay them, or they're called something else :)

Yea, they're just called something else/maybe handled differently. A lot of that stuff is privatized so you pay a company for it.