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Dolby

Dolby

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I received my rates today and notice an increase - and further checking showed they'd just revalued the house 25% higher than what it was before :/

Beforehand it was the real value IMO -now it's just over inflated and I need to pay rates on the over inflated value.

Has this happened to anyone else?
Can you contest it?
 
Thanks maumau ...

Yea - really unfair since the valuations are way more than the market value!
 
my brother-in-law's property is alongside a motorway and was valued at 1.5 million. they've revalued it at 3 million but i think there is a way to contest it.
 
I also need to contest my new evaluation, but the problem is that in Johannesburg the deadline for objections to property valuations was (after an extension) July 25, and my new evaluation came through AFTER this date!

I looked up my property evaluation via www.joburg.org.za on June 30 and it was 1,8mil (confirmed on my July 2012 Account), BUT got my August 2012 account and shocked to see property is suddenly valued at 2,86mil!

My rates have gone up by about R400 per month!

Joburg has deliberately avoided an objection by increasing the value AFTER the objection deadline.

Obviously not legal so any suggestions on how to procede?

Can I still object? And if yes how?

How many others have been shafted like this?

Ta

Mike
 
mozguide said:
I also need to contest my new evaluation, but the problem is that in Johannesburg the deadline for objections to property valuations was (after an extension) July 25, and my new evaluation came through AFTER this date!

I looked up my property evaluation via www.joburg.org.za on June 30 and it was 1,8mil (confirmed on my July 2012 Account), BUT got my August 2012 account and shocked to see property is suddenly valued at 2,86mil!

My rates have gone up by about R400 per month!

Joburg has deliberately avoided an objection by increasing the value AFTER the objection deadline.

Obviously not legal so any suggestions on how to procede?

Can I still object? And if yes how?

How many others have been shafted like this?

Ta

Mike
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Yeah, you lodge an objection,

You provide your July bill as evidence of the rates value as at June 30 (which I'm assuming is after the date the new rates were supposed to come into effect), and you pay that value, not the new one.
 
Not going to work. If I pay less than what I owe on my bill, then I get disconnected. Been through that one before. Or can I get a directive stating that my assessment rate is under appeal and then pay according to the old valuation? If yes how?

Thanks

Mike
 
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