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Tax in disguise: Cape Town structured the levy based on property value — the more expensive your home, the more you paid for service delivery. Picture: City of Cape Town
MUNICIPALITIES

Court puts municipality in its place

Other local government had better take note because the precedent has been set: as tempting as it might be, property owners are not an inexhaustible revenue source

  • Ash Müller
7 min read