Property Tax
Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) commissioner R A Rajeev has offered a 5% property tax reduction to housing societies who reduce their waste by more than 50% and recycle the waste generated in their compounds. More than 700 plus metric tonnes of waste is generated every day and dumped into the private landfills or illegally burnt [...] Continue Reading »
The South Municipal Corporation has found out a new way to ensure that the notice of property tax is delivered to the tax evaders. They have organised a team of officials to serve notice to tax evaders and this process will be recorded in video. In case a property owner approaches the court saying that [...] Continue Reading »
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has registered an increase of about 33 per cent in its tax collection as compared to the previous year. According to AMC officials, during the period from April 1 to October 15, AMC collected taxes around Rs 413.42 crore, while the corporation had collected Rs 311.85 crore during the same period [...] Continue Reading »
As per planning, 1,500 flat owners of Pune gathered at Bhave school near Perugate on Sunday morning. The owners were disgruntled because of lack of transparency on the part of builders on payment of VAT. They were visibly angry and confused as they sought clarification on how much exactly do they owe the builders. The [...] Continue Reading »
The Secundrabad Cantonment Board (SCB) has set triennial revenue target at Rs 60 crore. It has completed the triennial revision of property tax of around 300 commercial establishments in its jurisdiction. SCB has done the triennial revision after a gap of 10 years. Cantonment Board had formed special teams and visited all the commercial properties [...] Continue Reading »
Owing to confusion created in the minds of home buyers, the consumer organisations in Maharashtra have come together to address flat owners’ concern over paying the Maharashtra Value Added Tax (MVAT) to builders. Three organisations – Sajag Nagarik Manch, the Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat and the Grahak Hitwardhini have organised an awareness programme on October [...] Continue Reading »
The Municipal Corporation of Guragon (MCG) has conceded that it will fall way short of achieving property tax target it has set for itself in the current financial year. The MCG aimed to collect Rs 500 crore this year. However, even after six months it has barely managed to collect only around Rs 50 crore [...] Continue Reading »
The Ludhiana Municipal Corporation has gone hi-tech with SMS services. The citizens can now get notifications about water, sewerage bills and house tax on their cell phones. The authority would send texts to the registered cellphone numbers of its consumers informing them of the due dates and even receipts. The civic body is preparing an [...] Continue Reading »
Due to a software problem, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation‘s (BMC) plan to send out property tax bills by September has been delayed. The property tax bills are likely to be delivered to citizens in November. The BMC has demanded the software developer to hand over the software by October 15. Once the software is acquired, there [...] Continue Reading »
With the completion of the survey for levying property tax on the basis of Geographic Information System (GIS), the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation is all set to issue special notices. The relocation to GIS is one of the developments under the Jawaharlal National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) on property tax. However, there has been a [...] Continue Reading »
