The City of Cape Town says it will continue enforcing payments of outstanding debts through effective debt management actions to those residents or businesses, who have not come forward to access the City’s benefits offered.
The City of Cape Town was owed a whopping R8.1 billion in outstanding debts for rates and services as at the end of June this year, up from R7 billion owed three years ago.
This occurred as a total of R87.3 million was written off as bad debts during the same month.
This was revealed in the report on the collection ratio and debt management actions that was tabled in the Finance Portfolio Committee on Monday last week. This comes hot on the heels of the ratepayers and watchdogs, together with political parties whom two months ago raised concerns over who benefitted from the City's fixed municipal charges.
The report gave the breakdown of the R8.1 billion owed as being R5.2 billion by the residents, R2.1bn businesses, R402 million government and R384.51m by other unspecified category of customers.
