The Pretoria high court on Thursday declared that the imposition of the cleansing levy by the City of Tshwane is unlawful, invalid and set it aside.
AfriForum brought the urgent application to set aside the metros decision to impose the new mandatory monthly levy of R194.37 excluding VAT on about 260,000 households and businesses in the metro.
AfriForum had argued that the levy amounted to illegal and unfair double taxation, especially in cases where residents did not benefit from the metros refuse removal service and were using private service providers.
The court today ordered the metro to ensure that all municipal accounts on which the city cleaning levy has already been levied are credited in the next billing cycle with the amount equal to the amount levied for it, AfriForum said in a statement.
In addition, the court said the metro must also take the necessary steps to ensure that residents and businesses were not further charged for the levy.