KCC defies Museveni
KAMPALA City Council (KCC) has defied a presidential directive to stop collecting ground rates for residential premises.
By Milton Olupot
KAMPALA City Council (KCC) has defied a presidential directive to stop collecting ground rates for residential premises.
President Yoweri museveni, during presidential election campaigns, described the city property rates as ‘murderous’ and ordered that they be limited to commercial buildings.
The Minister of Local Government has placed adverts in newspapers explaining that persons who own residential houses and living in them, shall not pay property tax on them.
The minister said the law should be amended to allow him to approve the valuation list and that the legislation needs to be expedited.
In the meantime, the law that specifies levies on commercial and industrial buildings still stands.
A circular by Ruyoka Uganda Ltd, the official KCC collectors of property and ground rates, to landlords in Nakawa Division recently, warned that they would ask defaulters to vacate their houses and other people would take over them, in case no payments were made.
The circular instructed concerned parties to deposit the amounts due on KCC account No.
0140060913706 in Stanbic Bank Lugogo branch.
The payment is to be made within two weeks from the date of receipt of the demand note.
KCC authorities warned that service provision would deteriorate. They said the heaps of uncollected garbage would grow by the day, markets would become filthier, streetlights would not be replaced, traffic lights would be under-serviced and potholes unattended to if the order was implemented.
KAMPALA City Council (KCC) has defied a presidential directive to stop collecting ground rates for residential premises.
President Yoweri museveni, during presidential election campaigns, described the city property rates as ‘murderous’ and ordered that they be limited to commercial buildings.
The Minister of Local Government has placed adverts in newspapers explaining that persons who own residential houses and living in them, shall not pay property tax on them.
The minister said the law should be amended to allow him to approve the valuation list and that the legislation needs to be expedited.
In the meantime, the law that specifies levies on commercial and industrial buildings still stands.
A circular by Ruyoka Uganda Ltd, the official KCC collectors of property and ground rates, to landlords in Nakawa Division recently, warned that they would ask defaulters to vacate their houses and other people would take over them, in case no payments were made.
The circular instructed concerned parties to deposit the amounts due on KCC account No.
0140060913706 in Stanbic Bank Lugogo branch.
The payment is to be made within two weeks from the date of receipt of the demand note.
KCC authorities warned that service provision would deteriorate. They said the heaps of uncollected garbage would grow by the day, markets would become filthier, streetlights would not be replaced, traffic lights would be under-serviced and potholes unattended to if the order was implemented.