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Kandy rates payments window extended
Residents of Kandy are being given at least a month more to pay their rates.
The Kandy Municipal Council at a special general meeting on Friday, under the deputy mayor, Illhai Abdeen, unanimously decided to extend the payment period to 28 February, from 31 January. Surcharges will not be levied.
Taxes would be on the assessment made in 2012 and not on current rates.
This decision was taken as the municipality could not distribute tax notices before December 2020.
Councillor Vipula Ranasinghe moved a resolution for the extension.
Opposition leader Sena Dissanayake said that the secretary to the governor has misled the governor on the assessment issue although there is a decision by the central government to give redress to ratepayers.
Mr Abdeen told The Sunday Times that the taxes would be worked out based on the 2012 assessment.