{"id":71608,"date":"2014-10-26T09:23:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T07:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/71608\/da-attempts-to-stands-up-for-account-payers\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T14:13:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T12:13:30","slug":"da-attempts-to-stands-up-for-account-payers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2014\/10\/26\/da-attempts-to-stands-up-for-account-payers\/","title":{"rendered":"DA attempts to stand up for account-payers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DA, in the metro, says that regular paying customers are the people who have to pay for the metro\u2019s failing credit control.<\/p>\n<p>A scrutiny of the metro\u2019s unaudited annual reports from the 2013\/2014 financial year shows that the metro has an almost R3-billion increase in its operating income, despite a falling collection rate.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The metro\u2019s new valuation roll came into effect on July 1, 2013, and it is the increased revenue from service charges, such as water, electricity, sanitation, sewerage and solid waste that allows for the rise in the operational budget.<\/p>\n<p>This is because the revenue collection rate has dropped by almost three per cent which, in real terms, is R750-million lower than the targeted collection rate.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>What this means, the DA claims, is that residents who regularly pay their bills are paying more and more to cover the costs of residents who routinely do not pay the metro.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='be926f9e17b097005319e9dd368b0dc6'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does a failed credit control system mean for residents who regularly pay their bills?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":71617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8515,2],"tags":[1556,5293,8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2730,1002,2856,1004],"class_list":["post-71608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-municipal-news","category-news-headlines","tag-accounts","tag-bills","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-metro","tag-municipal-accounts","tag-municipality"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Municipal"},"tag_labels":["Accounts","bills","community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","metro","municipal accounts","municipality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}