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.
