Households costing less than R120 000 in value, will soon have the relief when their waste collection fees are cut by the municipality, Executive Mayor of Tshwane, Solly Msimanga said last Thursday, during a media briefing on his one year in office.
The City is continuing with the standardization of waste collection bins with 12 768 240 Litre bins having been distributed to households by June 2017.
“Linked to this was the review of the waste tariff where, for the first time, households with properties that are less than R120 000 in value will not be charged waste management service fees,” he said.
In his budget speech for 2017/18 in May, Msimanga announced that R120 000 households are exempt from all residential property tariffs. This amount was increased from R75 000 to R120 000.
“We have introduced a relief on properties with a value of R120 000 or less. These account holders will receive a discounted fee of R179, 98 for 240l bin,” Msimanga said.
At the same time the City addressed the historical unfair practice where consumers who are serviced by private contractors were not contributing towards the city cleaning levy. Now all property owners will contribute towards the levy.
