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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

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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

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4/23/2014 2 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

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

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13,739 properties

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

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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.

Kandahar District 9 Office Survey team (8 staff)

Property Tax (‘safayi tax’) = Municipal tax 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

House Number

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Survey based on existing procedures Manual recording in the field Computerised (GIS system) in the office

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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);