Property Tax
Thane Municipal commissioner RA Rajeev’s proposal to shift to capital value based assessment of property tax in Thane has been criticised collectively by all the political parties. General body of the Thane Municipal Corporation, comprising of members from all political parties – Congress, NCP, BJP, Shiv Sena lashed out at the administration’s proposal to shift [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi government got a boost as pleas against the government’s legislation levying property tax were rejected. Delhi government had passed a legislation empowering the corporations to levy property tax on the basis of unit area hold by the owner. Many individuals pleaded with the court to declare the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2003, [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is all set to send the final property tax bill in September. The BMC claims that it has completed the billing process and is currently working on the refunds. The civic body is in the process of computerizing the property tax collection system and is planning to use it to [...] Continue Reading »
South Delhi property tax defaulters are to bear brunt of Delhi Municipal Corporation. The south Delhi Municipal Corporation has geared up to crack down on defaulters who have rented their properties but have not been paying the right amount of property tax. The Corporation officials state that most of the residents are either not paying the [...] Continue Reading »
Over four lakh flat owners in Maharashtra, who had bought properties between June 20, 2006 and March 31, 2010, may have to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) to the state government. As the state government plans to recover VAT, a trade circular is issued by the Maharashtra sales tax commissioner on August 6. The tax [...] Continue Reading »
Property tax for the commercial properties located within a radius of one kilometres from a Metro line may soon see a hike, however residential properties will be spared from the hike. All five-star and three-star hotels, private hospitals and industrial areas in the city will also be brought under the same tax net. Leaders of [...] Continue Reading »
The SGS Mall has said that the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has made an increase of 900 per cent in the annual property tax. Subhash Gulati, CMD, SGS Mall said the mall was paying an annual property tax of Rs 19.54 lakh every year adding that in 2010 the PCB revised the property tax of the mall, increasing it [...] Continue Reading »
The Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has finally started the exercise to impose property tax on residential properties in the city. The accounts wing of the corporation has wrote to 25 government departments and organizations besides housing societies to submit details regarding their residential accommodations in the city within a period of one month. The information has been sought from Chandigarh [...] Continue Reading »
In a bid to increase revenue as well as to address the issue of illegal building, the Kochi Corporation is planning to allot building numbers to all unauthorized buildings and then impose penalty three times the normal tax on the owners. Both residential and commercial buildings constructed without prior approval from the civic body would [...] Continue Reading »
The SGS mall in Pune Camp, which was sealed on Tuesday on charge of non-payment of property tax, was opened on Thursday evening, following an order from the district and sessions court here. Principal district and sessions judge Anant Badar ordered the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) to remove the seals on hearing an appeal filed [...] Continue Reading »
