Property Tax
The Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC)‘s crusade against tax defaulters continues. On Monday IMC attached seven properties including houses, flats, schools and commercial units and issued attachment notices to three for non-payment of property tax. The properties attached have tax dues between Rs 70,000 and Rs 3 lakh. The civic administration says that more properties will [...] Continue Reading »
The Pune Municipal Corporation(PMC) has prepared a list of nearly 10,000 property tax defaulters. The defaulters have more than Rs 1 lakh property tax dues per head. The PMC has revealed that it has to recover around Rs 100 crore from these defaulters. The civic administration issued notices to these people and has demanded that [...] Continue Reading »
The Nashik Municipal Corporation(NMC) administration has tied up with some select nationalized and scheduled banks for collection of property taxes. The property tax can be deposited at around 80 branches of some nationalized and scheduled banks within the NMC limits. Collection of the property taxes at the select bank branches is expected to commence within [...] Continue Reading »
The Income Tax department has raided 45 premises of Indore’s 10 real estate firms. As per reports, 300 officials conducted the operations and recovered Rs 2 crore in cash and sealed 15 lockers of nine realtors. Officials of I-T department said that a host of irregularities have come to the fore during the raids which [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of cities and towns across Assam will be able to use their mobile phones to check their property taxes from next year onwards. Assam’s urban development department has decided to launch an e-governance project, under which the property tax collection system will be streamlined to bring in more transparency. The programme will include 89 [...] Continue Reading »
The Chennai Corporation has decided to conduct a study on buildings including courts, police stations and police quarters yet to be covered under the property tax. The revenue department of Chennai Corporation has intensified efforts to increase property tax collection. The civic body plans to issue notices to buildings that have failed to pay property [...] Continue Reading »
The Chennai Corporation added more banks to its current list of six banks authorised to collect property tax. Currently the six banks receiving property tax are – Indian Overseas Bank, City Union Bank, Karur Vysya Bank, Canara Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank. Now HDFC Bank and the IDBI Bank are added to the list. [...] Continue Reading »
In the ongoing tussle, the Bombay high court has settled a long-pending property tax row in favour of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The court ruled that the civic body can fix property tax on the building based on the actual rent charged. The verdict is the latest in the saga of tax tussle between [...] Continue Reading »
The traders of Connaught Place in New Delhi have stated that they are facing up to 70 per cent losses in business due to municipality work going on in the area. The traders have asked the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) to increase their property tax rebate by 30 per cent. Currently, the traders in [...] Continue Reading »
The Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) is all set to reform property tax structure. Determined to go ahead with its plans to assess property tax based on capital value of structures, the civic body is likely to vie for reforms in the tax structure. TMC’s legal department will file a signed affidavit that is to be [...] Continue Reading »
