Dormaa Assembly to prosecute property rate defaulters

The Dormaa Central Municipal Assembly has given property rate defaulters in the Municipality up to Monday, December 15 to defray them or face prosecution.

Mr Peter Nketiah, Budget Analyst of the Assembly, who disclosed this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Dormaa-Ahenkro stated that the Assembly had a list of defaulters who had already been served with demand notices, adding that a Collection Task Force was on the field to collect those monies in debt.

He said the assembly would prosecute landlords and ladies who had evaded the payment of property rates during the 2013 financial year, saying that demand notices had been sent and would therefore followed it up with prosecution after the deadline.

The Budget Analyst said the municipality had an estimated 3,000 properties but only about 1,100 landlords and ladies had paid their rates during the year and was hopeful most of them would do so by December 15.

He explained that properties located within Dormaa-Ahenkro, the municipal capital were categorized ‘A’, those outside Dormaa-Ahenkro but fell in Area Council jurisdictions were ‘B’ category while all other  properties in towns and villages outside the above-mentioned two categories were category ‘C ’ and they attract different rates.

Mr Nketiah said ideally the assembly was expected to realize about GHC169,000 as revenue from property rates in 2013.

Source: GNA