Ours are around $1000 every 6 months, with 5% discount, and interest at 20+ percent accumulating from the day after last date to pay.
We pay for our water on top of that too! Use to be a sliding scale, but now they just charge our town (others in the region are still sliding scale or much less) a flat rate for all our water consumption....
Dog Rego after the council amalgamations also went up from $25 per year to $80

Nic