The Kaipara rates strike is making a big impact with the owners of 1107 properties - 507 of them in Mangawhai - not paying their 2012/13 rates.
And of the owners of the remaining 12,812 Kaipara properties, 2644 have only partly paid their rates, many covering the amount rated for 2011/12 and waiting to see if controversial rates increases imposed this year will officially be declared illegal.
Increases which have more than doubled some rates were set by the former Kaipara District Council in a bid to deal with debts of around $80 million, mostly attributable to the Mangawhai sewerage scheme.
While the previous council admitted some of its rates and fees had been imposed illegally, the four commissioners who the Government has put in to replace the councillors have been told by Local Government Minister David Carter to enforce the rates.
Commissioner Peter Winder told a council meeting last week the commissioners were looking into the rating situation but had limited options available this year.