LETTER: Suspend rates and services charges
Municipalities must provide owners and tenants with breathing room
29 March 2020 - 18:26
With small businesses already hit hard by Covid-19 and the national lockdown, it is time municipalities and landlords granted property owners and tenants breathing space by suspending payments for the duration of the lockdown.
Rates and rents are a substantial cost of doing business. With all nonessential businesses being forced to close during the lockdown, continuing to pay them will be the nail in the coffin of many small enterprises. Many will be forced to shed staff as the only way to survive, if survival is at all possible...
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