Civic Issues
Chandigarh city residents are relieved as the formalities over imposing the house tax on residential properties and revision of tax rates of commercial properties will take at least another six months or more. Chandigarh administration needs to issue a notice of communication to the MC as it has already sent many reminders regarding impose of [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has enhanced its range of services for online payment. It’s a good news for those facing problems while paying property tax. Along with IDBI Bank, Corporation Bank is also included for tax payment now. BBMP is also looking at IT to curb the duplicate khata racket, and will introduce a [...] Continue Reading »
East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) is planning to issue passbooks to payees to retain all property tax within its range and keep property tax payers’ records up to date. A proposal in this regard was put forward in the Standing Committee meeting by MK Ahuja which was approved by other members. Ahuja also proposed that all the property tax payers [...] Continue Reading »
After a month the new property tax formula has been declared, and their factors for various areas of the city, citizens in Gandhinagar posted as many as 1,500 objections before the GMC. The corporation has spent the last one week reading 600 objections that were received from citizens. Sources in the GMC say that another 800 objections [...] Continue Reading »
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation’s (GHMC) efforts to begin property tax collection from the beginning of the financial year have been delayed. GHMC has not even started to send demand notices to the property owners when it has to actually start collecting a penalty for delay in paying tax for the first half of the [...] Continue Reading »
Garbage trucks of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMD) were attacked by some people living near Bandhan party plot on SG Highway, on Sunday evening. Angry residents threw stones at garbage trucks as they were unhappy with the allotment of space in the area for garbage dumping. The local people had been protesting for long against the [...] Continue Reading »
Given the huge task covering 4 lakh door numbers in the city and issuing tax returns form to all residents, offices and shops concerned, Kochi Corporation may not be able to meet the deadline set by the government, which is August 16. Revenue department officials admit it will not be possible to complete the process [...] Continue Reading »
Due to opposition from locals, the Pune Municipal Corporation‘s (PMC) efforts to decentralise garbage processing has halted with the state and civic body failing to acquire land to set up the processing units. A civic official said, the civic body had forwarded 17 land acquisition proposals to the district collector and some were finalised by the state [...] Continue Reading »
In less than three months, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has collected Rs 300 crore as property tax from 3.75 lakh people since April 1, 2012. The property tax department in Pune stated that this milestone could be achieved only due to the tax discount scheme of PMC. The tax discount scheme stated that those who [...] Continue Reading »
The civic body in Mumbai has passed a bill to change the property tax calculation system from ratable to capital value based on urgent need. However, the corporators of the city have to say that there was no urgency to do the same. The corporators stated that most of them didn’t know about the proposal [...] Continue Reading »
