Published tribunal order
Tenancy Tribunal case 9078264 — Unit Titles in Taupo, Taupo
Published 29 April 2026 · Application 9078264
Mixed / unclear
- Unit Titles
- Costs
Order
Paula Pasi must pay Body Corporate 553625 $7,897.74 immediately, calculated as follows: DescriptionsApplicant Levies to 1 September 2025$5,078.29 Interest on levies to 29 April 2026$638.95 Filing Fee$500.00 BBCL’s attendances for debt collection$1,680.50 Total award$7,897.74
Reasons
- The hearing was conducted remotely on Microsoft Teams by video.
- Jenny Sinnecker from Boutique Body Corporates Limited (BBCL) attended for the body corporate.
- The unit owner did not attend.
- The body corporate has applied for recovery of unpaid levies, interest, costs and the filing fee from the unit owner.
Does Ms Pasi owe the levies claimed?
- Unit owners in body corporates must pay the levies and outgoings payable for their units. 1
- The body corporate has determined the levies payable and calculated the unit owner's according to their utility interest. The body corporate fixed the due date for the levies to be paid. Ms Pasi did not pay the levies by the due date.
- The body corporate has provided a comprehensive summary that proves that Ms Pasi owes the levies claimed.
How much interest has accrued on the unpaid levies?
- If a unit owner fails to pay levies by the due date, interest accrues on the unpaid balance. A body corporate may charge interest up to 10 percent per annum. 2
- The body corporate has resolved to charge interest at 10 percent per annum on unpaid levies. The body corporate has calculated the amount of interest owing from the due date to the hearing date.
- Interest is ordered as set out in the table above. Recovery costs
- The body corporate is entitled to recover any reasonable costs it incurs in collecting Ms Pasi’s unpaid levies as a debt due by the owner to the Body Corporate. 3 1 Unit Titles Act 2010 (UTA) ss 80(1)(f) and 121(1). 2 UTA s 128. 3 Body Corporate 162791 v Cheah DC Auckland, CIV2014-004-0120, 24 June 2014; and Body Corporate 162791 v Gilbert [2015] NZCA 185.
- BBCL pursued Ms Pasi for the levies and brought this claim in the Tribunal on the body corporate’s behalf. BBCL’s costs to the body corporate of $1,680.50 are reasonable. The Tribunal orders Ms Pasi to reimburse the body corporate for them.
- Ms Pasi must also reimburse the body corporate for the cost of the filing fee. 4