Someone is bound to raise a stink over this.
“The Supreme Court (SC) has put the imposition of annual garbage collection fee for Quezon City residents, issuing a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the city ordinance based on the petition of Jose Ferrer Jr., a resident of Kamias Road in Quezon City,” reports ABS-CBNnews.com.
Last December, Quezon City had approved an ordinance that required homeowners to pay annual garbage collection fees ranging from PHP100 to PHP500 depending on the size of their lot, condominium, or apartment.
READ: QC Mayor Herbert Bautista approves collection of garbage fees
Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista had explained that, based on an average computation of P260 from each of some 200,000 real property units, the city government can only generate some PHP50 million. He pointed out that the amount is “hardly enough to cover the PHP1.1 billion that the city government spends annually to collect garbage and maintain the Payatas landfill site.”
The fee was meant to be paid simultaneously with the homeowner’s real property tax.
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