Seremban: Assessment and quit rent rates will not be raised

SEREMBAN (Jan 3): It might have attained city status on the first day of the new year but fear not, Seremban (pictured) folk, assessment and quit rent rates will stay the same.

“Although the Seremban and Nilai municipal councils have been merged and Seremban is now a city, the quit rent and assessment rates will remain the same.

“We hope the new mayor and his team will find creative ways to increase their revenue instead,” Negeri Sembilan housing, local government and new villages committee chairman Teo Kok Seong told the media at the Seremban city council office today, reported The Star.

The decision not to raise assessment and quit rent rates in the city was also in line with the Negri Sembilan government’s pledge “as announced before the last general election”, Teo added.

Bernama also reported that Seremban Municipal Council (MPS) president Datuk Zazali Salehudin has been appointed the first Mayor of Seremban City Council, effective Jan 1.