Currantly
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[...]except if you'd prefer a levy for road usage levy say in return for reduced property taxes?
We already pay multiple levies on fuel for 'road usage' amongst other things.
[...]except if you'd prefer a levy for road usage levy say in return for reduced property taxes?
We already pay multiple levies on fuel for 'road usage' amongst other things.
I'm pretty sure he also doesn't want want to pay data bundles prices from 2010. Things change.
How about a levy where everyone pays the same? Why must my property taxes be considerably more than a neighbour because I look after my property? We use the same services, and drive the same roads.
That pays for your local roads (they don't get all funds required from National for that) and other things, except if you'd prefer a levy for road usage levy say in return for reduced property taxes?
Invest in your property and built an extra garage? Value goes up and COCT just charges you more. Zero incentive to invest or elevate oneself above a shack dwelling.
Invest in your property and built an extra garage? Value goes up and COCT just charges you more. Zero incentive to invest or elevate oneself above a shack dwelling.
Magically though - if your garden got killed by the drought - your property rate never came down during that time - despite the retail value of said property having dropped with around 30% , compared to when it had a lush garden.
You were taxed full rate throughout the drought. As if the value never dropped. Notice a trend?
Will you be saying the same thing about in the 2030s wrt to billing in the 2020s? That's where we're heading, right?
That's just because the rest of the country has become so unbearably k@k in comparison.Was in Cape Town last week for business.... was very impressed at how well run, clean and organised the city was. No sign of any trash, roads are painted and well maintained. Visible policing in many places, shopping and tourism was booming. In comparison Durban and Joburg are dirty $h!tholes. So my advice to Capetonians is... enjoy it.
The drought is over - the dams cant get fuller than they are.
If the present storage capacity of the Cape Town River System dams cannot see Cape Town through at pre drought tariffs, without fixed levies; and without water restrictions this summer - let me put it to you in simple language.
The problem lies elsewhere. If the maximum supply capacity of CTRS is inadequate - the REAL problem was man made by the municipality themselves. And now water is being used coercively to fill the piggy bank to fund off budget projects, and what they feel they should get paid now. At any cost to the paying consumer.
Fresh water does not belong to the state - read the Water Act. It is merely entrusted to the state to manage in distribution and supply infrastructure we paid for long ago. And the maintenance we paid for was included in the water price BEFORE they started implementing a "supply levy" (call it by whatever name you want to - its a new tax on water). And the 2014 tariff was adequate to maintain water infrastructure very well...without the new levy.
New supply and distribution infrastructure in new suburbs are paid for by the new rate payers that move in there.
You may have not heard of this drought we had for 4 years. Or the simple reality that we get less water than we used to and this has increasingly been the case since the 90s (according to a friend of mine who farms out in Caledon). Or the fact that most people have changed their water consumption habits because of the drought and continue to maintain their good habits for the most part.
Thinking that our water supply systems should operate and be billed the way they did back in the 2010s is a bit backward.
The DA who claim to be for the people, are financially "raping" the Capetonians whilst giving themselves exorbitant salaries.
While everyone has to trim their budgets, they award themselves increases and have the cheek to rape by adding more and more petty taxes.
They ought to be striving to be more efficient year on year, not more greedy and wasteful.
All they need is a rate payer revolt once people can self provision their own water and electricity. What would they do if one million residents refused to pay and they had no leverage such as cutting off water and electricity?
Court, and attachment of assets for defaulting on monies owed.
The city won't hesitate to try take your house away from you if they can...
It's actually deteriorated over the last few years. Places aren't as clean as they used to be. If this is what impresses you and it's currently not that impressive, then Durban and Joburg must be horrible.
What would the city do with 1 million houses and most of their income gone? Houses filled with squatters won't pay salaries.
They wouldn't stand a chance against a mass revolt. Look at what happened with etolls. Lots of threats about court actions, fines, seizure of assets, etc. but when faced with rebellion on a grand scale they don't stand a chance. Prosecuting one million people, one person at a time is not feasible especially if those people also fight back in court.
Can't speak for Durban but Joburg is
Family spent a few days in CT 2 months ago and didn't stop raving about it.