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cost of collection on individual stall basis. Is that it?
SMS:
The Urban Council has all along taken the
view after consulting legal advice, that rating is a matter between
the individual stall holder and the Government.
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Well, this is something in which I want
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I am reporting you know, the
It was mentioned to us there is a collection
rate of something like $2.8 million?
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Yes.
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And you mentioned about the new rent
that
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is in total, the Urban Council's interest to raise the level they are going to collect $10 million, well they said "No rates", we can push the rates aside, it is the public coffer. Now in practice and in principle that is wrong, if the assessment is there and the Urban Council on the one hand doesn't want you to make an assessment on rates while jacking up the rent, then I don't think that is right in principle.
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They were influenced of course, the Urban
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particularly at this moment, it would really produce no genuine increase in revenue in fact, for the public generally, because the reduction commensurate with the rating value will have to be borne then, by the Urban Council; I think that was the Urban Council's thinking of course, of its own Urban Council's interests.
MR CHEONG:
Well, that is the point we want to establish, because basically in terms of law the Commissioner of Rating &
Valuation has to assess rates.
Now, whether the Policy Branches in
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