4/23/2014 Housing, Land and Property Task Force Property Taxation - PDF document

4/23/2014 Housing, Land and Property Task Force Property Taxation and Security of Tenure Jan Turkstra 22 April 2014 Urban Planning: learning from people and warlords The bulk of urban growth is informal but with a wide variety of development sequences and tenure security housing is a continuous process and not a product 1

4/23/2014 Regularization of Informal Settlements Security of Tenure Infrastructure/services Municipal Revenues and Local Governance Anticipating the informal settlement upgrading policy UN-Habitat: Continuum/range of land rights 2

4/23/2014 UN-HABITAT Integrated Settlement upgrading and security of tenure Participatory community and municipality Approach Incremental step-by-step, results based Sustainable social, institutional, financial, legal and technical 28,700 (map)+ 12,000 properties 3

4/23/2014 13,739 properties 4

4/23/2014 Surveyed Properties Mazar in 2013/2014 6,500 properties 11,500 (map) + 6,000 properties 5

4/23/2014 Property Survey LOCATION street name and house number, block and parcel code. OWNERSHIP name of owner, id, number of (occupancy) persons living on the property. PROPERTY building use building material plot size, building volume grade (indication of quality) number of floors. Survey team (8 staff) House Number Property Tax (‘safayi tax’) = Municipal tax Kandahar District 9 Office Typical House $ 18 / year Typical Shop $ 75 / year Survey and Registration, 1000 parcels per month Costs per parcel approx $4 Total annual tax approx $ 250,000 (District 9) 2010 Total annual tax approx $ 1,000,000 (Kandahar) 2013 6

4/23/2014 Survey based on existing procedures Manual recording in the field Computerised (GIS system) in the office 7

4/23/2014 Conclusions Settlement regularization increase security of tenure and leads to investments; Property registration facilitates tax collection and generate municipal revenues ; Settlement regularization is a long-term process and requires strengthening of decentralised Local Governance (Districts) and community involvement (CDCs); Challenge: incorporate 500,000 urban properties into the ARAZI Land Administration system and database maintenance 8