Civic Issues
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been strictly monitoring the reinstatement of roads ahead of Ganpati festival. BMC has been regularly cracking the whip on contractors in charge of pothole-filling work and has collected fines total of Rs 1.22 crore so far. Contractors under the civic body’s road department, its ward level and other related departments [...] Continue Reading »
The number of online taxpayers under the jurisdiction of North Delhi Municipal Corporation has significantly increased this year as compared to last year. According to the North Corporation, 1.83 lakh people have paid property tax online, while 1.41 lakh people deposited tax over the counter in the last eight months. The number of online tax [...] Continue Reading »
While the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) announced to start the tax collection drive, it was alleged that it had targeted lower and middle class to collect property tax. Now, the BBMP has come up with the list of 20 major property tax defaulters, who owe almost Rs 16.58 crore to the civic agency. Big [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has started an extensive drive to collect dues from property tax evaders from the city. The civic body has begun the drive as they are taking a strict stand against tax evaders. The municipal commissioner stated that they will start to seize properties of those who refuse to pay [...] Continue Reading »
The Standing Committee of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) presented the Rs 1,810.82 crore civic budget for 2012-13 in the general body meeting(GBM). The standing committee, while modifying the budget worked out by the former municipal commissioner, had rejected proposals to hike house and water taxes. The former commissioner had proposed 10 per cent hike [...] Continue Reading »
Heavy rains in Mumbai seemingly may have brought relief to Mumbaikars as well as to the civic officials. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Authority (BMC) officials are now contemplating if they should still go ahead with cloud seeding project to increase water levels in the lakes around Mumbai, as the heavy downpour last few days have seemingly [...] Continue Reading »
The state sales tax department of Maharashtra has insisted that the payable value added tax (VAT) is much less than three per cent. This has put buyers who purchased flats between 2006 and 2010 and had paid money, in a fix as to how to recover the additional amount paid. Till now, there has been [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has given a three-day deadline to engineers of the roads departments to inspect the major Ganpati routes in their jurisdiction. The engineers are asked to report all potholes that need to be attended to. They have been asked to report the potholes on the civic body’s website following which the [...] Continue Reading »
Big house owners in Chandigarh will have to pay more in house tax as compared to those of smaller houses. The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has decided to impose higher taxes on big houses once the house tax is imposed. The municipal corporation compiled details of the size and number of houses in the city. There [...] Continue Reading »
The corporators in Pimpri-Chinchwad have demanded that the penalty being charged by the property tax department from citizens for unauthorised constructions after January 2008 be reduced. The PCMC property tax department has started sending notices to the owners of the unauthorised constructions directing them to pay a penalty equivalent to the property tax of the [...] Continue Reading »
