Carte Blanche scripts

[Nod]

Why don't they work out the rate, based on the average cost per square meter? In this way, a house half the size of its neighbour would pay half.

 

[Skeptik]

No, meaning that you didn't pay rates before due to the Apartheid government's insistence that "the whites don't need the blacks help" (or something along those lines). Now we're all equal and we all pay equally (or rather equally on the basis of what we own). i.e. Cake and eat it part that was mentioned.

I know for a fact that the councils are using rates from previously white-only neighbourhoods to subsidise the townships. Also in Cape Town they have stopped maintenance on verges, rivers, drains etc..

 

[semiautomatix]

I know for a fact that the councils are using rates from previously white-only neighbourhoods to subsidise the townships. Also in Cape Town they have stopped maintenance on verges, rivers, drains etc..

Which is fine for POOR neighbourhoods. But many of them are living in manions!

 

[diesel]

The problem with the system is its based on averages, lets say you just bought your house and paid R1 000 000 but its surrounded by houses worth R14 000 000, is it fair that you get taxed the same amount of rates ?, thats what ppl are complaining about, houses in soweto for sale at 2.8mil are paying 4 times less rates than houses of the same value in areas like randburg.

 

[DJ...]

Why don't they work out the rate, based on the average cost per square meter? In this way, a house half the size of its neighbour would pay half.

The stand size is one part of the calculation.

 

[Nod]

The stand size is one part of the calculation.

Was actually referring to the size of the house. The stand on its own, without the house, should be the same for all properties in the same area.

 

[arf9999]

I know for a fact that the councils are using rates from previously white-only neighbourhoods to subsidise the townships. Also in Cape Town they have stopped maintenance on verges, rivers, drains etc..

it's vodacom's fault.... j/k