I REFER to the threshold to qualify for a pensioners rebate, whereby previously one would qualify if your property was valued below R3m.
Now the 2017/2018 qualifying value has been scandalously decreased by 50 per cent to below R2M – How can this rip-off be justified? Hence if one’s home is valued at R2m upwards your rebate now falls away.
Surely it should have been calculated whereby the threshold is revalued by the same percentage as the average property value movement, R3m times by say the 7.9 per cent = R3.24m. Plus the rebate should escalate by the same factor.
At worst leave as is just increase the rebate.
I think eThekwini council should declare how much additional revenue they are scandalously depriving the many thousands of pensioners. They certainly are not spending much money in most of our residential areas.
The endless burst water pipes almost weekly in many of our areas are testament to the state of affairs.
Even the state of our patch-worked residential roads are further aggravated by barely visible white lines.
Obviously the councillors/managers who drive around in their super SUVs live elsewhere and have very dark sunglasses/windscreens?
Oh, not to mention the crime situation whereby we all are forced to spend thousands to increase home security plus the ongoing cost for the local monitoring and armed response guards, all of which is not claimable from our SARS.
The only one scoring here is the government via the extra VAT.
Lastly I propose that all pensioners affected by this scandalous act must increase their previous rebate by say 7.9 percent and withhold that amount going forward, ie R336.25 + 7.9 percent = R362.81.
Mike
Cowies Hill
