Yes, the response with respect to each metropolitan municipality is as reflected in the tables below.
Given that the granting of rate rebates is one of the three instruments municipalities utilise in granting relief to property owners, for completeness we have included information pertaining to the granting of reductions on the market values of properties and exemptions where applicable. This is because municipalities use any combination of these three relief measures (according to their individual preference). Thus, by merely looking at only one of these three relief measures in isolation of the other two, one cannot get a full picture as to how each metropolitan municipality approaches the issue of granting relief to property owners.
The information below is sourced from municipal rates policies and other relevant municipal budget related documents which contain detailed information (such indigent policies and resolutions levying rates), and therefore this response does not provide all detailed information (e.g. with respect to criteria) as reflected in those documents because to do so would amount to duplicating information in those municipal documents which are ordinarily published in municipal websites for any interested person to obtain detailed information without the risk of these being summarised by someone else (as is the case now by the Department) in a manner which can fail to do justice to those detailed public documents.
Buffalo City
Rebates |
(a) The elderly: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(b) People with disability: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(c) Low income property owners: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(d) Other persons and/or organisations: 1. Newly developed commercial/industrial properties (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
2. Differential rebate (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
3. Public Benefit Organisations (PBOs) (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each case
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Exemptions |
The following properties are exempted from rating:
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Ekurhuleni
Rebates |
(a) The elderly: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(b) People with disability: 1. Disability grantees and/or medically boarded persons (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(c) Low income property owners Refer to reductions and exemptions below. (d) Other persons and/or organisations: 1. Natural disasters (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
2. Sporting bodies (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
3. Public and private schools, universities and colleges (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
4. Vacant unimproved land (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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Reductions |
(a) The elderly, (b) people with disability, (c) low income property owners, (d) other persons and/or organisations (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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Exemptions |
(c) Low income property owners: 1. Indigent households (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
2. Child headed households (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(d) Other persons and/or organisations
1. Public benefit organisation / non-governmental organization and cultural organisations (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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eThekwini
Rebates |
(a) The elderly: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(b) People with disability: 1. Disability grantees or medically boarded persons (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(c) Low income property owners: 1. Child headed households (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(d) other persons and/or organisations: 1. Life rights schemes and retirement villages/complexes (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
2. Commercial accommodation (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
3. Schools not for gain (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
4. Natural and other disasters (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
5. Economic development (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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Reductions |
(a) the elderly, (b) people with disability, (c) low income property owners, (d) other persons and/or organisations (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(d) other persons and/or organisations 1. Vacant land (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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Exemptions |
(d) other persons and/or organisations 1. Residential property with a value of up to R185,000 is exempted. 2. Public benefit organisations (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
3. sporting bodies (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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City of Cape Town
Rebates |
(a) The elderly: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(b) People with disability: (i) Criteria Same as (a) above. (ii) Relief in each specified case Same as (a) above. (c) Low income property owners: (i) Criteria Same as (a) above. (ii) Relief in each specified case
(d) Other persons and/or organisations: 1. Agricultural properties (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
2. Nature reserves, special nature reserves and national parks (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
3. Religious organisations (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
4. Non-Profit Organisations (NPOs)/ Public Benefit Organisations (PBOs) (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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Reductions |
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Exemptions |
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City of Johannesburg
Rebates |
(a) The elderly: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(b) People with disability: 1. Emanating from injury (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(c) Low income property owners: 1. Extended social package (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
2. State’s Social Security Grant (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
3. Child headed households (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(d) other persons and/or organisations: 1. Heritage properties (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
2. Residential sectional title (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
3. Protection of animals (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
4. Disaster areas (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
5. Vacant land (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
6. Housing development schemes for retired persons (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
7. Registered social landlords (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
8. New building incentive (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
9. Private sports club (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
10. Provision and/or promotion of youth development (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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Reductions |
(a) The elderly, (b) people with disability, (c) low income property owners, (d) other persons and/or organisations (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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Mangaung
Rebates |
(a) The elderly: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(b) People with disability: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(c) Low income property owners: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(d) Other persons and/or organisations: 1. Child headed families (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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Reductions |
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Exemptions |
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Nelson Mandela Bay
Rebates |
(a) The elderly: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(b) People with disability: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(c) Low income property owners (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(d) Other persons and/or organisations: 1. Sporting bodies (Professional) (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
2. Social Housing (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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Reductions |
None, and for properties affected by disasters, such properties are re-valued to get the revised their market values for rating purposes. |
Exemptions |
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Tshwane
Rebates |
(a) The elderly: (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(b) People with disability: 1. Physically or mentally disabled (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(c) Low income property owners: 1. Indigent households (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
2. Owner temporarily without income: indigent criteria may be applied in terms of Indigent Policy of City of Tshwane (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
(d) Other persons and/or organisations: 1. Grants-in-aid (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
2. Owners of land alienated by the municipality after January 2015 (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
3. Owners of catalytic investment properties (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
4. Independent school (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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Reductions |
(a) the elderly, (b) people with disability, (c) low income property owners, (d) other persons and/or organisations (i) Criteria
(ii) Relief in each specified case
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Exemptions |
(d) Other persons and/or organisations 1. Public Service infrastructure 2. Places of public worship 3. Protected areas 4. State trust land |