The Star, Wednesday April 16, 2014
Kajang town: MPKj plans to be more business- friendly by expediting the process of issuing business licences. — filepic
THE Kajang Municipal Council
(MPKj) plans to be more business-friendly by expediting the process of
issuing business licences, council president Datuk Hassan Nawawi Abdul
Rahman said.
“We hope to be able to speed up the process and issue licences within 30 minutes to an hour, compared to the current three days.
Licences that used to take one week to be issued will now be ready within 24 hours.
“We want to be business-friendly while ensuring business operators adhere to the law, so that Kajang residents will not be inconvenienced,” he said.
He added that the council would take harsher action against those who did not pay their summonses.
The council is expecting to collect only RM9,686,570 from summons compared to last year’s RM16,309,368.
“Based on past experience, we usually only manage to collect lower than we expect because not everyone pays.
“However, this year, our panel lawyer will issue letters to urge defaulters to pay up,” he said.
It was a balanced budget for the Kajang Municipal Council in 2013 at RM189,043,286.
This year’s budget is also expected to be a balanced budget at RM180,270,950.
“We have been having a balanced budget for six years now,” Hassan Nawawi said.
The council expects to generate more revenue from business licences this year at RM17,099,790, compared to last year’s RM12,824,490 due to the business licence hike that was implemented this year.
The Malaysian Road Records Information System (Marris) allocation has also increased from RM8,000 in 2012 to RM10,000 last year and has doubled to RM20,000 for 2014.
“Even then it is not enough, and we will fix the roads based on priority,” he said.
He added that the new MPKj hall in Saujana Impian was expected to be completed at the end of next year.
The previous one in Jalan Besar was demolished in February to make way for the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Sungai Buloh-Kajang line, with the council receiving RM12mil in compensation.
Hassan Nawawi said the cost for the new hall was RM14mil and MPKj would fork out the additional RM2mil.
“We hope to be able to speed up the process and issue licences within 30 minutes to an hour, compared to the current three days.
Licences that used to take one week to be issued will now be ready within 24 hours.
“We want to be business-friendly while ensuring business operators adhere to the law, so that Kajang residents will not be inconvenienced,” he said.
The council is expecting to collect only RM9,686,570 from summons compared to last year’s RM16,309,368.
“Based on past experience, we usually only manage to collect lower than we expect because not everyone pays.
“However, this year, our panel lawyer will issue letters to urge defaulters to pay up,” he said.
It was a balanced budget for the Kajang Municipal Council in 2013 at RM189,043,286.
This year’s budget is also expected to be a balanced budget at RM180,270,950.
“We have been having a balanced budget for six years now,” Hassan Nawawi said.
The council expects to generate more revenue from business licences this year at RM17,099,790, compared to last year’s RM12,824,490 due to the business licence hike that was implemented this year.
The Malaysian Road Records Information System (Marris) allocation has also increased from RM8,000 in 2012 to RM10,000 last year and has doubled to RM20,000 for 2014.
“Even then it is not enough, and we will fix the roads based on priority,” he said.
He added that the new MPKj hall in Saujana Impian was expected to be completed at the end of next year.
The previous one in Jalan Besar was demolished in February to make way for the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Sungai Buloh-Kajang line, with the council receiving RM12mil in compensation.
Hassan Nawawi said the cost for the new hall was RM14mil and MPKj would fork out the additional RM2mil.
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