EDITOR – Having checked eThekwini’s website on a regular basis I am now anxious as exactly how the 2017/2018 Rates Randage will be altered by them.
The Mayor recently tabled her draft budget in which she stated the Rates Tariff increase would be 6.9 per cent!
However documentation on their website such as Tariff Tables 2017/2018 and the Medium Term Revenue Framework 2017/2018 to 2019/2020 state it will actually be only R1.06 which is slightly less than the current one of R1.19.
It also states that pensioners, child-headed households, disability grantees and the medically boarded are exempt from paying rates on the first R460 000 of their property value.
Additionally there has been little indication when public meetings will be held where the Draft Budget can be discussed with local ratepayers and residents which would give us a chance to obtain the truth regarding this Rate Randage problem.
Alan Smaldon
Gillitts
