KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 2 -- Around 85 per cent of property owners in Selayang have paid their assessment tax for the first term of 2025, despite strong opposition to the higher assessment rates initially.

The new assessment rates came into effect on January 1, 2025 after the Selangor government approved a 25 per cent hike in assessment tax rate for all local councils in the state last December.

The Selayang Municipal Council (MPS) last revised its assessment rate in 1992.

MPS president Shahman Jalaludin said engagement sessions held to listen to some 40,000 protests against the new rates has helped ease concerns among the ratepayers, eliciting better compliance from them.

"Of course, we expected the resistance when the new rates were ann...