Chilanga Town Council has disclosed that Chilanga Cement Company has cleared it’s January to December 2022 annual property rates bill amounting to K 3,418,320.00 owed to the local authority.
In an exclusive interview with the Zambian Business Times-ZBT, Council Public Relations Officer Chimuka Mbewe confirmed that the company is up to date in terms of paying property rates.
Mbewe mentioned that the Council has employed workable mechanisms in order to maximize revenue collection from property rates by ensuring that companies and property owners who have not been paying property rates do so as it is a mandatory obligation according to the laws of Zambia.
She explained that in order to ensure that the defaulters pay for property rates and money is recovered, the council has intensified stakeholders’ engagement, distribution of rates bills and demand notices for defaulters to clear their outstanding property rates fees.
“Revenue mobilization and management is done through collection of various taxes within our jurisdiction as it is the integral responsibility of local government hence Chilanga Town Council does not share any proceeds with the central government”, she said.
Mbewe said the Council raises its own revenue through property rates, licenses and permits which are used to build its capacity in ensuring that service delivery is provided to residents of Chilanga District.
Chilanga Town Council has managed to build an Ablution block in Sangalala market, electrification of 30 shops at Twatashe market, drilling and installing of boreholes in some wards of Chilanga district adding that recently a water bowser was purchased from the locally generated revenue which comes from fees, licenses, permits and property rates.
