TNAG-1642-FCO40-2289-Public-finance-in-Hong-Kong-Supplementary-Appropriation-(198-1987 — Page 133

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25.11.86

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actually assessed to rates and they are licensed as individual fresh provision shops, because these are usually put to open tender on a commercial and open market basis, whereas with the Urban Council markets they are declared as public markets and in fact, very often in most cases anyway, they were built to resite hawkers off the streets and the hawkers came in on restricted tenders and the commercial nature of the operation is somewhat different.

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CHAIRMAN:

Why do you have no problem with collecting

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rates from other markets?

I mean, fish markets, do you collect

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rates?

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CRV:

Yes, we do.

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CHAIRMAN:

Why do you have no problem there?

The reason is of course, that they were

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CHAIRMAN:

Before they moved in?

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Before they moved in, whereas in this case

by history as Mr Chui has said, and DFS, they never have been rated and although I believe the tenancy document actually does make mention that rates are payable, in fact they never have been and

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CRV:

CHAIRMAN:

They never have paid?

They have never been assessed!

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CHAIRMAN:

The Urban Council?

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The Urban Council and yes, the public

markets have never been assessed.

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