By : News Desk Posted on : Thursday, May
25, 2017 Local News, News Highlight
MPP chairman, Lo Khere Chiang (centre)
during the press conference.
KOTA PADAWAN: Rate payers are reminded to pay up their assessement rates as the
due date for payment of the first half year 2017 assessment rate is this Wednesday, 31 May, 2017.
In view of this the counters of the Padawan
Municipal Council at Kota Padawan will be opened this Saturday, 27 May, 2017 to
assist property owners who wish to pay their assessment rates.
The counters will operate from 8am until
4pm including during lunch hours. On normal working days, the counters at the
Padawan Municipal Council (MPP) are always open during the lunch hours.
The reduction of rates for owners of
residential properties paying an annual rate of RM700.00 or below which the
State Government has approved since 2016 will continue.
There are 64, 523 properties in MPP area
and eighty seven per cent (87% ) or 56,315 out of the total of 58,390
residential properties are given reduction in the annual assessment rates in
2017.
The Council also wishes to notify
ratepayers of properties previously under the jurisdiction of Padawan Municipal
Council and are now under Serian District Council that the arrears of rates for
their properties are still payable to Padawan Municipal Council.
Ratepayers who are unsure of the amount of assessment rate they need to pay for the first half of 2017 or have
not received their assessment rate bills or have mislaid their assesment rate bills are requested to contact or
come to the Rating and Evaluation Division of Padawan Municipal Council at Kota
Padawan.
All telephone enquiries can be channelled
to 082-615566.
A surcharge of one per cent per month or
part thereof will be levied if payment of rates is made after 31 May, 2017.
Meanwhile, at a press conference yesterday
MPP chairman Lo Khere Chiang stressed that collection of assessment rates was
important to every council because they have to provide services.
“So in order for the Council to provide
good services, our residents have got to understand that they have to pay up
their rates as well.
“So here I would like to encourage
everybody to pay up their rates. We as a council have the responsibility to
provide good services and our rate payers have the same responsibility to pay
up so that we can provide good services.
“If people don’t pay up their rates, how do
you expect us to provide good services? So it is important and I would like to
encourage everybody to do so,” he pointed out.
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