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APPROVED PROPERTY RATES POLICY 2025-2026

Phokwane Local MunicipalityRef: http://www.phokwane.gov.za/Documents/APPROVED%20PROPERTY%20RATES%20POLICY%202025-2026.pdf

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Collected on 28 July 2026

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What this means

This document is the “Approved Property Rates Policy 2025/2026” for Phokwane Local Municipality. It sets out the policy framework and definitions for how the municipality will levy property rates under the Local Government: Municipal Property Rates Act (MPRA), including categories of rateable properties and categories of property owners. It also states guiding principles and objectives, and explains the validity and publication requirements for rate levies (including Provincial Gazette publication within 60 days of the Council resolution).

Facts

Reference

http://www.phokwane.gov.za/Documents/APPROVED%20PROPERTY%20RATES%20POLICY%202025-2026.pdf

Parties

Phokwane Local Municipality. It sets out the policy framework and definitions

Key Takeaways

  • Document title: Approved Property Rates Policy 2025/2026
  • Municipality: Phokwane Local Municipality
  • Legal basis: MPRA (Local Government: Municipal Property Rates Act, 2004) and related legislation (Constitution, Municipal Systems Act, MFMA)
  • Guiding principles include equity/rate-differentiation, affordability, poverty alleviation, cross-subsidisation, financial sustainability, and CPI inflation-driven annual increases
  • Categories of rateable properties include residential, industrial, business/commercial, agricultural, mining, organs of state/public service purposes, public service infrastructure, public benefit organisations, and vacant properties
  • Categories of owners include residential, indigent, pensioner, incomeless, child-headed, disability grantee, medically boarded, land reform beneficiary, public benefit organisation, retirement complex, disaster-inflicted, vacant land, and multi-purpose (dominant use)
  • Validity: rate levy lapses at end of financial year; cannot be extended except per Constitution section 139
  • MFMA restriction: rate levy may not be increased during a financial year except in instances of a Financial Recovery Plan
  • Publication: Council resolution must be published in Provincial Gazette within 60 days; rate levy and charges must be published in a local newspaper and conspicuous municipal places per Municipal Systems Act section 75A
  • Phokwane Local Municipality
  • Council of Phokwane Local Municipality
  • Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
  • Local Government: Municipal Property Rates Act, 2004 (MPRA)
  • Local Government: Municipal Systems Act, 2000
  • Local Government: Municipal Finance Management Act, 2003 (MFMA)
  • Provincial Gazette
  • Municipal Systems Act (section 75A)
  • National Environmental Management Act, 2003