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(Hai Pe) - Haifa Municipality continues to charge Shmuel David, owner of a stall in Talpiot market, with monthly property taxes for a stall he no longer has. David, 74 years old, owner of a stall in the market for 70 years, has been waiting for months for an answer from the municipality regarding the property tax charges due to him, even though he has not operated a stall in the market since June 2024.

Billing on a booth that no longer exists

As published in Chai Pa, last June (Sunday 30/6/24) Talpiot Market merchants in Minus 1 were moved to the entrance floor following renovation work on the lower floor. David, did not receive a replacement booth on the upper floor, and does not even know if he will choose to return and open a booth after the renovations are finished. Despite this, he continued to receive property tax charges.

David, was surprised when he received payment demands for the months of July and August, even though he did not have a booth. His many requests to the municipality to cancel the charge were not answered, and even in the months of September and October, David received another charge, including the charge for the previous months.

David, who has been running the booth inherited from his parents for decades, turned to Lai Fa with a request to raise the issue and help him influence the municipality to cancel the unfair charge.

Billing on a stand that no longer exists (photo: personal album)

As I recall, after a long wait and countless postponements, the merchants in the Talpiot market stopped believing that they would be allowed to move to the renovated floor, which was intended for a general renovation of the Minus 1 floor. However, on Sunday 30/6/24, the merchants eventually moved to the renovated entrance floor. Some of the merchants, whose booths were on the ground floor, got replacement booths on the new floor, but not all of them, including Shmuel David. David, who in a conversation with "Hai Pa" indicated that he may not return to operate his booth even after the renovation is finished, did not receive a replacement booth at all.

So the question arises: why does the municipality continue to charge David with property taxes for a stand that does not exist? Especially in such a difficult time, when many of the residents are suffering from financial hardship. Is there no place to ease and cancel a charge that does not reflect reality? After all, this is a wrong charge, the restitution of which should be a simple technical operation. The question that remains is why the municipality of Haifa does not cancel the charge despite all this.

Haifa Municipality has not yet given a response.

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Samar Odeh - Carantinji
Samar Odeh - Carantinji
Journalist in the team of correspondents of the Chai Pe site • Municipal reporter, crimes, environment and health Contact Samar by email: [email protected]

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  1. He made a mistake by contacting the municipality, he should have put on a kippah and turned to the rabbi at his synagogue, this is the direction today

    • And you have to go back to see in your family tree where gentiles who hate Israel entered your anti-Semitic family line.
      You are an instigator against religious people, Jews, your own people, you don't deserve to hang around among us, go to Germany, Holland, you and your family, go back to your pogroms and convert to Christianity, that's the best, then radical Islam will come and finish you off there. Rude, anti-Semitic.
      Besides, Shkaryat Haim is not Haifa, you will respond on the Kiryat websites

  2. I don't understand why everything has to go through a news site?!
    What's the problem if one of the grandsons/sons/cousin arrives or patiently calls the ward, talks to the right person there and that's it.
    More than once I did it.
    Patience and luck to land on one with a heart and desire to work...and the story ends.

    • Heart and desire to work does not go together with Haifa municipality!! The most opaque municipality in the country if the people (the majority) are the most opaque in this city. If they were not so sealed there would be no need to contact the press.

  3. It has been known for years that the municipality of Haifa is the worst and most difficult municipality with its residents.

  4. The municipality will require him to close the stand in blocks and then he will receive an exemption. A municipality that uses blocks.

  5. yes! What are you surprised at all?? It's a family business, there are many people like that, I always shop at the market and there are the same sellers there, it shouldn't be surprising at all, and yes, there are children working these stalls. Besides, he inherited the pulpit, why didn't you read that???

    • Yahav promised a change compared to Kalish, but it turns out as usual that he is no better than her.

    • That Ora with the ... hahahahaha
      Strong.
      I surfed back and caught it hahaha

    • Ora, you probably don't have the intelligence of over 10 years old. The stand 70 years, when he was 4 years old his parents operated the place, he probably helped them and replaced them after the army. That's how it used to work and that's how it works. Good luck to you, keep reading one day you will also understand what you are reading.

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