Simon’s Town Property Evaluations: The Cape Town Blunder
Apr 8th, 2007 by Johan
THE City of Cape Town has extended the deadline for objections to all property valuations until April 30. This was announced by valuations director Chris Gavor at a public meeting in the Strand on Tuesday, April 3.
The substantial discrepancies in valuations in the same area was discussed while the officials told them that “the system had caught up with them”.
The City of Cape Town admitted that many mistakes had been made in the calculation of valuations. They said these valuations would be corrected before the end of the month.
If you have not received your Simon’s Town valuation by April 13 to phone (021) 400-2866 or 400-3867.
Mr Neilson said the Act provided a number of steps that could be taken if people were unhappy about their valuations. There would be further opportunity to object against the revised valuations and if owners were still unhappy, they could put in an appeal.
“The only criteria is: is the market value correct? The impact on the rates is irrelevant,” he stated. He said the City decided to give a higher increase than the inflation rate this year. Electricity is to go up with 5,6%, water and sewerage with 19%, refuse removal with 11%, while property taxes would differ from individual to individual. Some people would pay less, others could pay up to 50% more, depending on how much their valuations had increased. He said the City had worked on an overall 24% increase in the proceeds from property tax.
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