Mr Yaw Owusu, Managing Director of Daylight
consultancy Services (DCS), a debt-collection company, has expressed concern about the low pace at which property rate was being collected in the
country.
He asked the municipal, metropolitan, and district assemblies to initiate proper rate collection mechanism in order to generate enough revenue for development.
Mr. Owusu in an interview with GNA in Accra, advised the assemblies to engage the services of private institutions in the collection rates on commission basis.
He said the collection of property rate was low due to the lackadaisical attitude of the collectors and their failure to educate property owners about civic responsibility to pay taxes.
Mr. Owusu has asked government to engage the services of private groups in the valuation of landed property to bring sanity into the system.