A charge made for the use of a public water supply.
自来水费
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Critics say that instead of forming strategies, Scotland's business rates, water rates and regulations should be cut back to allow business to flourish.
It is unacceptable, considering the way water rates are going up all the time.
With tax on profits, more than £25 for every £100 paid in water rates will go to shareholders and the Government!
Business rates, water rates and transport are three issues frequently mentioned where Scotland is at a disadvantage to its larger neighbour in the south.
As a result of the severe flooding particularly on Wednesday and Thursday many people are demanding a public meeting and a reduction of water rates.
Prospective buyers are also helped with information on local taxes, water rates and utility costs.
Residents could either be given a one-time charge on their utility bill or include the installation cost in the basic water rate.
The rebellion, which shut the city down for four days, was sparked after the foreign-owned water corporation raised Cochabamba's water rates 35 percent.
This is especially true when they also pay water rates and refuse collection charges, which local authority rates were originally meant to cover.
It is chiefly because of this programme that the firm proposes to increase water rates by 39 per cent over a five year period beginning this autumn.
By 2003, some small businesses had seen their water rates rise by 500%.
He is expected to accept that water rates are too high, that business rates are a problem, and that growth remains stubbornly below UK averages.
I was told this is because I have central heating and the water rates are connected to the general rates.
Yet business leaders see no attempt to ease rising business rates, water rates and increasing red tape, which have been among the principal concerns for some time.
Planning has been on the organisation's agenda for some time, though it has tended to overshadowed by the row over business and water rates.
She then used the forged cheques to invest in a building society, to buy a double bed and to pay her water rates and television licence.
They've put the water rates up but they can't seem to come and clean the street properly.
One option, he said, was to find a system that would attract road-users voluntarily, as water meters were introduced as a voluntary alternative to blanket water rates.
I have fallen behind with my water rates and have been threatened with disconnection - can they do this?
And the Government would be spared annual maintenance expenses, and would collect building taxes and water rates.