It is great that the metro has openly admitted that the cleansing levy has been implemented “illegally”.
This levy is merely a sneaky way to squeeze more money from the paying tax-payer.
Once “established”, it will be increased dramatically every year (it’s a fixed cost!).
In a few years the levy will have reached its limit of acceptable large increases and the metro will then come up with another charge (starting small) to rip us off!
This has already been the case with businesses: tacked on to the rates accounts for factories in Wadeville is a charge for litter picking. This is not cheap.
On investigation, the latter was introduced to “cover” the cost of cleaning the pavement/road outside factories (caused by “litterers”).
Surely this is what rates are meant to cover?
What has always baffled me on business electricity accounts is the exorbitant charge for something called network access charge. We pay for electricity consumption so what’s this charge for?
The conclusion is the metro introduced this some time ago – as a levy for using electricity or to cover the losses incurred by illegal connections to the grid!
Of course if the metro carried out its duties efficiently and its workforce was productive (not on strike or over-turning garbage bins) then we would get simple, consumption-based accounts with no constant add-ons.
