Hamilton, New Zealand Short-Term Rental Regulations: A 2026 Guide For Airbnb Hosts

Do you own a place in Hamilton, New Zealand and you're weighing whether to put it on Airbnb or Vrbo? Well, the good news is that Hamilton City Council, the territorial authority for Kirikiriroa in the Waikato, doesn't make you register, doesn't licence you, and doesn't cap how many nights a year you can let. There's no bed tax for your guest to pay either, because no council in New Zealand charges one yet.

The catch is that the permission you get depends almost entirely on whether you're in the house while your guests are. Hamilton's District Plan splits short-stay letting into two activities, and it treats them very differently: renting out part of the home you live in is permitted outright in every residential zone in the city, while renting out the whole place is "visitor accommodation" and needs a resource consent, which starts at a non-refundable $3,339 deposit and goes up from there. Unfortunately for anyone who bought a second house to run on nightly rates, that second path is the one you're on.

So let's walk through what it takes to do this properly: which of the two activities you're running, what the District Plan says about each, what a consent costs and what goes in the application, the three layers of tax and rates that attach to the income, how the Council enforces any of it, and who to call when you get stuck. Every figure below comes from Hamilton City Council's or the New Zealand government's own pages, checked in July 2026. Before you commit to either path, run the property through BNBCalc so you know whether the consent is worth applying for at all.

What are Short-Term Rental (Airbnb, VRBO) Regulations in Hamilton, New Zealand?

Since there's no bylaw and no register to point you at, the whole answer still sits inside one document, the Operative Hamilton City District Plan, which the Council administers under the Resource Management Act 1991. Nothing in it mentions Airbnb or Vrbo by name, and that's normal in New Zealand, because a district plan regulates what an activity is rather than which website it's sold on.

That plan is newer than most people assume, mind you. Plan Change 12, the Council's intensification rewrite, became operative on 20 December 2024 after Council resolved on 12 December to accept the Independent Hearings Panel's recommendations, so every residential activity table in the plan was rewritten less than two years ago. Any advice you read from 2023 or 2024 is quoting a version that no longer applies.

So start from the current text.

Two definitions in Appendix 1.1 of the plan do the real work, and they're worth reading slowly, because which one you land in decides everything that follows.

Homestay accommodation means "a portion of a dwelling occupied on a temporary (periods of up to 3 months continuous occupation during any 12-month period) basis and includes bed and breakfast establishments", and the same definition then adds that "the maximum occupancy is six guests at any one time." Two limits are hiding in there, and both of them bite. You're letting a portion of a dwelling, which means a room or a wing rather than the building, and you're capped at six guests counted at any one moment rather than across a year.

Visitor accommodation means "any land or buildings used for day-to-day accommodation of visitors on a temporary basis (up to three months' continuous occupation during any 12-month period). It includes motels, hotels, holiday or tourist flats, backpacker accommodation, motor or tourist lodges." That's the bucket a whole-house Airbnb falls into, since the same appendix defines a residential unit as a building occupied "exclusively as the home or residence of not more than one household", which a rotating stream of paying strangers isn't. Nobody's household lasts two nights.

Once you know which activity you're running, the zone then tells you what it costs you, and here's how the operative plan treats each one.

Zone	Homestay accommodation	Visitor accommodation
General Residential	Permitted	Restricted Discretionary
Medium Density Residential	Permitted	Discretionary
High Density Residential, outside the Visitor Facilities Precinct	Permitted	Restricted Discretionary
High Density Residential, inside the Visitor Facilities Precinct	Permitted	Permitted
Large Lot Residential	Permitted	Discretionary
Central City, Downtown Precinct	not listed	Permitted
Central City, City Living and Ferrybank Precincts	not listed	Restricted Discretionary

Two rows there are worth pausing on, because they're the only places in Hamilton where a whole-unit short-stay listing is free of consent. The first is the Visitor Facilities Precinct in the High Density Residential Zone, which the plan says "recognises the existing visitor accommodation around Ulster Street" and covers the sites fronting Ulster Street between Mill Street and Beetham Park. The second is the Downtown Precinct of the Central City Zone, where visitor accommodation is permitted outright.

So a CBD apartment and a suburban villa in the same city get opposite answers, and the boundary is a line on a planning map rather than anything about the property itself. Do check your zone first.

Two standards then ride along with visitor accommodation wherever it's permitted or consented. Rule 4.2.6.10 of the General Residential Zone caps it at 12 guests and says visitor accommodation "shall not provide for the sale of liquor through an ancillary facility such as a bar or a restaurant", and the High Density Residential Zone repeats both at rule 4.4.6.6.

Set that against the six-guest ceiling on a homestay and you can see the trade the plan is making. You can sleep twice as many people, but only after the Council has looked at your proposal.

Starting a Short-Term Rental Business in Hamilton

Given how much rides on that six-guest line, the first job isn't finding a property, it's working out honestly which activity your plan is. Plenty of people talk themselves into the homestay reading because it's free, and then list the entire house with a self check-in and no host on site. That's visitor accommodation, unconsented.

The homestay path is genuinely open, though, and it's the one most Hamilton hosts are on. You live in the house, you let a room or a self-contained sleepout that's still a portion of the dwelling, you keep the headcount at six or under at any one time, and you don't need to tell the Council anything at all. There's no fee, no form, no inspection and no annual renewal. Bed and breakfast operations sit in the same definition, so a small B&B in a Hamilton East villa is on exactly the same footing as a spare-room Airbnb.

The whole-house path is the one that costs money, and the order in which you check things matters more than it looks. Before you spend anything on a consent, work through these:

• Confirm the zone and the precinct. General Residential and High Density Residential make visitor accommodation Restricted Discretionary, Medium Density and Large Lot make it Discretionary, and the Central City precincts split three ways. The Council's free Duty Planner service will confirm your zoning and "guide whether resource consent is required" for your specific address, which is exactly the question you want answered before you commit.
• Read your title. Consent notices, land covenants and, in an apartment or unit-title block, the body corporate rules can prohibit commercial use even where the District Plan allows it. A resource consent from the Council doesn't override a private restriction on your own title.
• Check what it does to your rates bill. Hamilton reclassifies short-stay property for rating purposes, and the difference isn't small. More on that below, but keep it in the model from the start rather than discovering it in July.
• Model the consented version, not the ideal one. A consent can come with conditions on things like design, layout and hours, so the property you end up operating may not be the property you pictured.

If the answer comes back as a consent you don't want to pay for, the honest alternative is a longer stay. Both plan definitions stop at three months of continuous occupation, so a genuinely long-term let falls outside visitor accommodation altogether and lands under ordinary residential tenancy law instead. That's a different business with different economics, though, and it's where a fair amount of former nightly inventory has gone.

The next council over can also treat the same property completely differently. Our Palmerston North guide covers the other big provincial city in the lower North Island, while the Coromandel Town guide covers the holiday-home coast a couple of hours' drive away, where the rules and the seasonality look nothing like Hamilton's.

Short-Term Rental Licensing Requirements in Hamilton

Assuming you've decided the whole-house version is worth pursuing, there's still no licence to apply for, because Hamilton doesn't have one. What you apply for is a land use resource consent, and the Council's fee schedule prices it by activity status, which is why the zone table above turns into a number on an invoice.

Application type	Deposit (GST inclusive)
Non-notified, Restricted Discretionary	$3,339
Non-notified, Discretionary	$4,263
Non-notified, Non-Complying	$5,137
Limited notified	$9,947
Publicly notified	$21,316
Certificate of Compliance	$1,258
Existing Use Right	$2,771
Monitoring deposit	$460

Read the word "deposit" carefully there, because it's doing a lot of work. Those amounts are non-refundable, and the Council's own note says that "any actual or reasonable costs including, additional planning assessment and administration time spent beyond that covered by the deposits will be charged at the relevant hourly rates". So the deposit is a floor, not a price.

As of July 2026 those hourly rates run $132 for administration, $185 for a graduate planner, $212 for a planner, $234 for a principal or senior planner, $208 for compliance and monitoring, and $255 for engineering input, and an independent commissioner, if your application needs one, is $282.90 an hour for the chair and $251.85 for a panel member. Since I last checked, the schedule still carried a July 2024 update stamp, so treat these as figures to confirm rather than fix in a spreadsheet.

Notification is the variable that turns a manageable cost into an unmanageable one. A non-notified Restricted Discretionary application is a $3,339 deposit, whereas the same proposal, publicly notified, opens at $21,316 before anyone's charged an hour of time.

The Council decides whether to notify, and neighbours are usually the reason it would, which is why a quiet six-guest operation on a large site costs far less to consent than a twelve-guest party house on a suburban street.

One more thing gets missed, and it's cheap to avoid. If you want the Council's blessing that what you're already doing doesn't need consent at all, that's a Certificate of Compliance at $1,258, and it's a written answer you can show a buyer, a bank or a body corporate later. A Duty Planner conversation costs nothing but doesn't bind anyone, and the Council says plainly that its planners can't predict whether a consent would be approved, or prepare your application for you.

Required Documents for Hamilton Short-Term Rentals

Since none of those deposits come back, getting the paperwork right the first time matters even more than the fee does. The Council's resource consent checklist sets out what a complete application looks like, and an incomplete one simply isn't accepted rather than being processed slowly.

• A detailed description of the proposal. For visitor accommodation that means guest numbers, how bookings are managed, whether anyone is on site, parking, and how you'll handle rubbish and noise.
• An Assessment of Environmental Effects. This is the substance of the application, and it's where a planning consultant earns their fee. Keep a record of who you consulted among your neighbours and what they said, because the Council asks for that record inside the Assessment.
• The Record of Title. Which is also the document that will reveal any covenant working against you.
• A site plan and elevation plans. These have to show your boundaries and the neighbouring ones, how much of the site the building covers, existing and proposed buildings, and elevations from all sides.
• Any expert reports the proposal needs, such as acoustic or traffic assessments where guest numbers or parking are the live issue.

Applications go to [email protected] as a PDF or Word file, or in person at 260 Anglesea Street, or by post to Private Bag 3010, Hamilton 3240, using Form 9. They're "formally accepted when all relevant documents are included, fees paid, and a full explanation of the proposal, assessment of effects, plans and checklists are included", so a missing plan set stops the clock rather than starting it.

Then, once a consent is granted with conditions attached, don't forget that the Council monitors those conditions, and that you have to give it your start date at least 48 hours before you begin.

Hamilton Short-Term Rental Taxes

Assuming you get through all that and are able to start hosting, there's still tax to deal with, though the shape of it will surprise anyone coming from the United States or Canada. New Zealand has no bed tax, no occupancy tax and no tourist levy that a host collects, so there's nothing to add to a nightly rate and nothing to pay over to Hamilton City Council on a guest's behalf. What you get instead is GST, income tax, and a rates bill that can change category underneath you.

Charge	Rate	Who handles it
GST on the booking	15%	The platform, under the marketplace rules
Flat-rate credit back to an unregistered host	8.5% of the booking	The platform passes it to you
Income tax on the net income	Your marginal rate	You, through your return
Hamilton City Council rates	Set by rating category	Hamilton City Council

The GST piece is the one that trips people up, because it looks like a tax you owe and isn't. Since 1 April 2024, Inland Revenue's marketplace rules for listed services make Airbnb, Bookabach and the rest collect and return the 15% GST on accommodation booked through them "whether the person providing the services through the electronic marketplace is registered for GST or not". That money never passes through your account.

And if you're not GST registered, the flat-rate credit scheme means the platform passes 8.5% of the booking back to you and keeps the remaining 6.5% for Inland Revenue. That credit is yours to keep.

Registration only becomes your problem at scale, since Inland Revenue requires you to register for GST once you've earned or expect to earn more than $60,000 from all taxable activities in any 12-month period, and short-stay income counts towards that threshold. A registered operator can also opt out of the marketplace rules at 2,000 nights listed through a single marketplace, or at $500,000 of taxable supplies for a non-individual, and that opt-out has to be agreed in writing.

Then there are your rates, which is where Hamilton itself finally takes a cut. The Council's SUIP rules list "a separate dwelling used for short-term accommodation" as a commercial separately used or inhabited part of a rating unit, and "residential accommodation rented individually per room" as a residential one.

That classification matters more than it sounds, because the 2025/26 rates resolution sets the general rate on a differential basis using "the use to which the land is put" and "the activities that are permitted, controlled, or discretionary for the area in which the land is situated", and the commercial differential factor is 2.9877 against 1.0000 for residential. On top of that, the Uniform Annual General Charge was $865 per SUIP, so an extra separately used part is an extra fixed charge before the differential does anything at all.

For scale, the Council reports that a median Hamilton residential property with a capital value of $730,000 saw its rates go from $2,866 to $3,064 for 2026/27, a 6.9% rise, while water and wastewater moved to IAWAI - Flowing Waters on 1 July 2026 and now appear as a separate $1,128 line on the same invoice.

The Council also notes that a bigger increase on any one property can come from "changes in property value, rating classification, or property use", which is a fairly direct way of saying that turning a house into visitor accommodation can move you between categories. Be aware of that before you model a consent as a one-off cost.

Deductions and Write-Offs

The deductions follow the usual New Zealand pattern, with one rule that catches holiday-home owners in particular. Where a property earns rental income, is also used privately by you or an associated person, and was unused for 62 days or more, Inland Revenue's mixed-use asset rules apply and your expenses get apportioned between income-earning and private use rather than claimed in full. Miss that and you'll overstate your deductions.

Below the line, the asset can be left out of your return entirely where gross income from income-earning use is under $4,000, or where it's loss-making and that income is under 2% of its value. A Hamilton homestay is usually occupied all year, so it doesn't hit that 62-day test at all. The ordinary actual-cost method applies instead, and you apportion by the share of the house and the share of the year you let. Keep in mind that the resource consent fees and any planning consultant you hire are business costs too, so hold onto those invoices.

New Zealand Wide Short-Term Rental Rules

Rates aside, almost nothing above came from Wellington, and that's the single most useful thing to understand about hosting anywhere in this country, because there's no national short-term rental statute here, no national register, no licence and no permit number to display. Regulation happens at council level instead, through each territorial authority's district plan made under the Resource Management Act 1991, and the Ministry for the Environment is clear that most resource management decisions get made by local government.

So a rule you read about one New Zealand town tells you very little about the next one, since some councils regulate by nights, some by guest numbers, some by zone, and some by a mix of all three. Hamilton uses guests and zones with no night cap at all, whereas Queenstown Lakes runs a mandatory council registration, and the West Coast and Marlborough districts are different again.

If you're comparing markets rather than committing to Hamilton, the Whitianga guide, the Picton guide and the Oamaru guide each show a different council answering the same question its own way.

A national register does get talked about, so it's worth knowing where that stands. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Tourism Policy Statement, published in June 2026, lists as a future action that Government "will work with local government and the sector to assess options, including establishing a register for short-term rental accommodation". That's a work item and not a scheme, and there's nothing to sign up for in 2026.

The bigger change coming is structural rather than about short-stay letting at all. The Government introduced a Planning Bill and a Natural Environment Bill in December 2025 to repeal and replace the RMA entirely, Parliament's Environment Committee finished its scrutiny in July 2026, and the Government aims to pass both this year, with transition running through to 2028 and 2029. Every district plan in the country, Hamilton's included, eventually gets rewritten under that system. Nothing about your position changes today, but a consent you take out now sits under a framework with a known end date.

The only country-wide visitor charge, meanwhile, is the International Visitor Conservation and Tourism Levy at NZD $100. Your guest pays it with their visa or NZeTA application, long before they find your listing, and Australian and New Zealand passport holders are exempt. It never touches your booking.

Does Hamilton Strictly Enforce STR Rules?

Because there's no register and no licence, Hamilton has no way of proactively matching listings against permissions, and that shapes how enforcement works here. Nobody at the Council is scraping Airbnb to see whose address turns up.

What happens is simpler, and slower. A neighbour complains, and once a complaint lands, the Resource Management Act hands the Council a fairly serious toolkit.

I should be straight about the limits of what I could establish. Hamilton City Council publishes no compliance statistics for short-stay letting, no count of visitor accommodation consents it has granted, and no enforcement register I could find, so nobody can tell you how many unconsented whole-house listings are operating in the city right now. What I can tell you is what the tools are worth if the Council does turn up, and that changed a great deal in 2025.

The Ministry for the Environment's compliance and enforcement fact sheet says that the top fine a court can hand down for breaking environmental rules rose from $300,000 to $1,000,000 for a person and from $600,000 to $10,000,000 for a company, while the longest prison term available dropped from two years to 18 months. At the smaller end, infringement fees now range from $600 to $2,000 for an individual and $1,200 to $4,000 for a company, in force from 4 September 2025 and the first update since 1999.

Two of the other changes matter more to a host than the headline numbers do, though. Councils can now weigh a person's compliance history when deciding a resource consent, and consents can be "declined, revoked or suspended for ongoing or repeated serious breaches", so operating without consent and then applying for one later is a worse position than applying first. And insurance no longer helps, since the same reforms mean people "may no longer have insurance that pays their fines".

Noise is the practical trigger, and Hamilton's limits are specific. Under the District Plan's noise standards, noise measured at any point within the boundary of another site in a residential zone can't exceed 50 dB LAeq during the day, 45 dB in the evening, and 40 dB LAeq with a 75 dB maximum between 11pm and 6am.

Then there's the newer tool sitting beside those numbers. Councils can now issue an excessive noise direction lasting up to eight days, which the Ministry says is long enough to cover two consecutive weekends, so a guest who ruins one Saturday night can cost you the next one too. Make sure your house rules and your quiet hours reflect that, because a noise complaint is often what brings your consent status to the Council's attention in the first place.

The quiet enforcement, meanwhile, is the rates bill. A property that gets reclassified into the commercial category carries a differential nearly three times the residential one, and that happens through valuation and rating rather than through a prosecution. It's slower and less dramatic, and it's far more likely to be what happens to you. Fines make headlines. Rates just arrive.

How to Start a Short-Term Rental Business in Hamilton

Given all of that, the sequence below answers the expensive questions before you spend money on them. Working through it out of order is how people end up paying a non-refundable deposit to be told no.

1. Decide which activity you're running, honestly. A portion of your own home with six guests or fewer at a time is a homestay. Anything else, including a whole house, a self-contained second dwelling let on its own, or seven guests, is visitor accommodation.
2. If it's a homestay, you're finished with the Council. No form, no fee, no notification. Move to the tax and insurance steps below.
3. Confirm your zone and precinct with the Duty Planner. The service is free and runs 8.30am to 1pm, Monday to Thursday. Ask specifically about your address and the precinct it sits in, because the Central City and High Density zones both split internally.
4. Read your Record of Title and, if you're in an apartment, the body corporate rules. A covenant against commercial use ends the project, whatever the District Plan permits.
5. Get a pre-application meeting before you lodge. It's the cheapest way to find out whether the Council thinks your application would be notified, which is the difference between a $3,339 deposit and a $21,316 one.
6. Budget for the consultant as well as the deposit. An Assessment of Environmental Effects is not a form you fill in, and the Council's planners are explicitly barred from writing it for you.
7. Lodge a complete application. Description, Assessment, Record of Title, site and elevation plans, expert reports, and your record of who you consulted.
8. Sort out tax before your first guest. Confirm whether your platform is applying the flat-rate credit, watch the $60,000 GST threshold, and check whether the mixed-use asset rules catch you.
9. Tell your insurer, and check your rating category. Short-stay letting usually isn't covered by a standard house policy, and your rates category can move once the use changes.
10. Diarise your consent conditions. Where a consent carries conditions, the Council monitors them, and the monitoring deposit sits on your invoice whether or not anyone visits.

Who to Contact in Hamilton about Short-Term Rental Regulations and Zoning?

Most of those steps run through one building, so knowing which team inside it owns your question saves you a transferred call.

Zoning, District Plan rules and resource consents

Hamilton City Council's planning teams handle everything from "do I need a consent" through to lodging and monitoring one.

• Address: 260 Anglesea Street, Hamilton Central 3204, with the counter open 7.45am to 5pm Monday to Friday
• Postal: Hamilton City Council, Private Bag 3010, Hamilton 3240
• Phone: +64 7 838 6699, answered 24 hours a day
• Consent applications and planning questions: [email protected]
• Duty Planner: free, in person, by phone or by email, 8.30am to 1pm Monday to Thursday

Remember what a Duty Planner can and can't do for you. They'll confirm your zoning, tell you whether a consent looks necessary and explain the process, but they can't give legal advice, predict whether you'd be approved, review your application, or advise you as a prospective purchaser about a property you don't own yet.

Rates, rating categories and SUIPs

Anything about how your property is classified for rates, including whether short-stay use has moved you into the commercial category, goes to the Council's rates team on the same number, and the SUIP page sets out the categories before you call. General enquiries and complaints go to [email protected] via the compliance pages.

Tax

GST, the flat-rate credit, the mixed-use asset rules and income tax all belong to Inland Revenue rather than the Council, and its short-stay accommodation guidance is written for hosts rather than accountants. Hamilton City Council has no role in your tax position at all. None.

What Do Airbnb Hosts in Hamilton on Reddit and Bigger Pockets Think about Local Regulations?

Since the Council publishes no host-facing guidance on short-stay letting, most Hamilton operators are working this out from each other, and I'd rather tell you what I could and couldn't verify than paraphrase threads I haven't read. Reddit blocks the automated access available here, so nothing below is a survey of it, and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. What follows is my read of the recurring themes, drawn from the Council's own documents and from how the rules land in practice.

• The six-guest line looks like the least-known rule in the city. It isn't in a bylaw, it isn't on a Council landing page, and it isn't in the definition of anything a normal person would search for. It's one sentence in an appendix to a district plan, and it's the sentence that decides whether you need a $3,339 consent.
• The homestay path is a better deal than most hosts realise. No fee, no registration, no renewal and no cap on nights is about as light as regulation gets in New Zealand in 2026, and the hosts who've read the plan design around it deliberately, keeping the sleepout attached and the headcount at six.
• My guess is that most whole-house operators haven't applied. That's the gap you'd expect between a rule with no register behind it and a market that pays well, and it's the exposure that got much more expensive in August 2025 when RMA fines went up by more than a factor of three.
• The rates reclassification is the complaint that lands hardest. A fine is a risk you can argue about; a permanent move into a rating category with a 2.9877 differential is an annual cost you can't.

If you're weighing whether any of that is worth the paperwork, the numbers matter as much as the rules do. What a two-bedroom clears in Hamilton East against Rototuna, and how nightly rates behave around Fieldays week and the university calendar, is the sort of thing you can check against the Hamilton market before you decide which of the two paths to design your listing around.

The broader lesson here isn't about Hamilton, and it isn't even about New Zealand. Where a country hands the rule-making to councils and doesn't build a register, the rules end up buried in documents nobody reads and enforced only when a neighbour gets annoyed. That's comfortable right up until it isn't, because the day someone does look, they're looking at years of bookings rather than last weekend's.

So read the plan for wherever you're buying, find the one sentence that defines your activity, and build the listing around that sentence rather than around whatever the rest of your street seems to be getting away with.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you legally run an Airbnb in Hamilton, New Zealand in 2026?

Yes, and how easily depends on whether you live there. Hamilton City Council requires no licence, no registration and sets no annual night cap. Letting part of the home you live in to six or fewer guests at a time is homestay accommodation, which is a permitted activity in every residential zone. Letting the whole property is visitor accommodation, which needs a resource consent everywhere except the Central City Downtown Precinct and the Ulster Street Visitor Facilities Precinct.

How much does a Hamilton resource consent for visitor accommodation cost?

Hamilton City Council charges a non-refundable deposit set by activity status: $3,339 for a non-notified Restricted Discretionary application, $4,263 for a Discretionary one, $9,947 if the application is limited notified and $21,316 if it's publicly notified. Costs beyond the deposit are billed at hourly rates from $132 for administration to $255 for engineering input. A Certificate of Compliance, confirming no consent is needed, is $1,258.

How many guests can you host in a Hamilton short-term rental?

Six, if you're hosting in part of your own home. The District Plan defines homestay accommodation as a portion of a dwelling with "maximum occupancy is six guests at any one time". Consented visitor accommodation in the General Residential and High Density Residential Zones is capped at 12 guests instead, and the same rules bar it from selling liquor through an ancillary bar or restaurant.

Do you pay GST on Airbnb income in Hamilton?

GST of 15% applies, but the platform handles it. Under Inland Revenue's marketplace rules for listed services, Airbnb and similar sites collect and return the GST whether or not the host is registered, and pass an 8.5% flat-rate credit back to unregistered hosts. You must register for GST yourself once your taxable activities exceed $60,000 in any 12-month period. There is no bed tax or occupancy tax anywhere in New Zealand.

What happens if you run an unconsented short-term rental in Hamilton?

Enforcement runs under the Resource Management Act, typically after a complaint. Councils can issue abatement and infringement notices, with infringement fees from $600 to $2,000 for an individual and $1,200 to $4,000 for a company since 4 September 2025. Prosecution maximums rose in August 2025 to $1,000,000 for an individual and $10,000,000 for a company. A poor compliance history can also see a later consent declined, revoked or suspended.

Last verified: July 2026. Every ordinance, tax rate, state law, and contact detail in this guide links to or comes from its official source.