By Busisiwe Mtabane
Yesterday it was reported that the Cape Town international Airport and other Cape Town big businesses including the national and the provincial government owe the City of Cape Town more than 15 million rand for rates and taxes. The Airport Company South Africa management says they have been in formal discussions with the City since 2003 after they received a nine hundred percent increase in their rates and taxes.
ACSA spokesperson Deidre Hendricks says while in the process of these discussions, they came to an arrangement whereby an agreed amount was paid to the City in 2004 and 2005 with the City confirming in writing, that any potential outstanding balances will be settled in full once a final valuation of the airport is reached between ACSA and the City.
She says they have been working closely with the City on this issue and the process has almost reached conclusion, hence they are taken by surprise by the recent reports. Hendricks says as a good corporate citizen, ACSA takes its obligations very seriously and therefore it is incorrect to suggest that ACSA has failed to pay its rates and taxes to the City of Cape Town.
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