Two owners of farms in the Omaruru and Gobabis districts yesterday asked the High Court to stop the levying and collection of tax on commercial agricultural land while a legal challenge about Valuation Court proceedings that took place in 2016 remain pending.
The Valuation Court proceedings in 2016, during which farm owners' objections against a new valuation of commercial farms were considered, was flawed, and the certified valuation roll in which farm values are recorded for the purpose of assessing land tax is completely defective and a nullity in law, farm owners Traupe Farming CC and the company Mapan Boerdery are claiming in an urgent application argued before deputy judge president Hosea Angula.
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