Rates and Taxes
Rates and Taxes
Paying your rates
Rates are payable monthly. As a property owner, you should make sure that the City has your current postal address so that you receive your account on time. Even if you do not receive a statement, you are still liable to pay your rates.
Metro Centre
Payments
We have arranged a variety of quick and easy options for you to pay your rates and municipal services accounts.
Remember to take your statement with you when paying your account. It can take up to five working days for your payments to reflect on your statement when you pay via a third party. Please retain your payment slip or receipt as proof of payment.
Electronic payments make paying your account easier, quicker and safer. Payments can be made at any of the following pay points:
Your nearest branch of any major bank;
All Standard Bank service centres; Frequently Asked Questions
Via internet, telephone and ATM banking;
Post Offices, EasyPay outlets (including Pick ’n Pay, Shoprite Checkers, Spar, Best Electric, Lifestyle Living, Score, Lewis); or
Through EFT (electronic financial transfer).
You can register on the City of Johannesburg eServices to get your statement via email.
Property Rates Tariffs
Calculating your rates
Rates are payable monthly. As a property owner, you should make sure that the City has your current postal address so that you receive your account on time. Even if you do not receive a statement, you are still liable to pay your rates.
Metro Centre
Payments
We have arranged a variety of quick and easy options for you to pay your rates and municipal services accounts.
Step one
Get your valuation from our e-Services website or view a copy of the General Valuation Roll at Metro Centre:
Valuation services
4th Floor
A Block
Metropolitan Centre
158 Loveday Street
Braamfontein
Step two
Residential property
Once you have got your valuation, termed the market value, deduct R200 000 to arrive at the rateable value. Multiply the rate in the Rand (R0,006161) by the rateable value. This will give you your annual rates. Divide this amount by 12 to get your monthly rates.
The City will not levy a rate on the first value up to R200 000 on the market value as per the valuation roll of residential properties as follows:
On the first R15 000 on the bases set out in Section 17(1) of the MPRA and
On the balance of the market value up to R185 000 in respect of residential properties, provided that the Council may from time to time during its annual budget contemplated in Section 12(2) of the Act determine as threshold, the amount to be deducted from the market value of residential properties, as a result of which rates will only be determined on the balance of the market value of such properties after deduction of the threshold amount.
All other categories of property
Once you have got your valuation, multiply the rate in the Rand tariff for your type of property as per the property categories below. This will give you your annual rates. Divide this amount by 12 to get your monthly rates.
The first R200 000 of all residential property values is exempt from rating.
Sectional Title owners qualify for an automatic 20 percent rebate on top of this threshold.
Properties valued at less than R200 000 don’t have rates levied against them, but these properties pay a mandatory R5 a month (or R60 a year) levy for municipal public services.
Applying for residential tariffs for property owners who are billed at a business rates tariff
Application for Mixed use properties to be rated at residential rating
Mixed use property owners, who are being billed at a business property rate tariff, can now apply to the City’s Rates and Taxes department to be charged at residential rates.