Property Tax
Urban property owner cards to be issued to property owners instead of ‘Khata’ under an agreement between Bangalore and Urban Property Ownership Records (UPOR) are just three months away. The project for the state capital has already been cleared by the state cabinet. The project has already been taken up on a pilot basis in [...] Continue Reading »
Haryana Government has finally started the property tax collection process after imposing it ten days back in the state. The property tax will be collected from owners of residential, commercial and institutional buildings across Haryana. If all goes in a correct manner, then the financial commissioner principal secretary (FCPS) informed that demand notices of property [...] Continue Reading »
After the recent High Court’s order, BBMP has plans of amending the betterment charge to a reasonable one. The betterment charge was first used for those sites getting converted from agricultural purposes to non-agricultural purposes after approval from the deputy commissioner. The Taxation and Finance (T&F) of the civic body has decide to modify a [...] Continue Reading »
Have a property tax query or don’t know what is capital value based property tax system? Then not to worry because Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has come up with an initiative to solve the queries. The civic body has come up with an email address at which if you send a mail along with your property identification [...] Continue Reading »
The auditor general (AG) of Pune government has said that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has failed to collect proper stamp duty from various builders of the city. In their audit report of the slum rehabilitation housing projects in Pune it id found that payment of stamp duty and royalty charges from the contractors had [...] Continue Reading »
The Andhra Pradesh Government has given the revenue department a target of revenue collection of Rs 5,300 crore. This is 25 percent more than the total revenue collected in Hyderabad last year. The government had increased the market values of properties in Hyderabad in 2010, is keen on repeating the same this year as it [...] Continue Reading »
The Delhi government has planned to lift the restrictions on sale and purchase of properties in over 1,200 unauthorized colonies. The regularization process of the unauthorized properties in Delhi has started, and once it is completed, there will be no obligation in Sale and purchase of properties in those colonies. Almost 40 lakh people are [...] Continue Reading »
The West Bengal Government has legalized the sale of housing land in the satellite township of Salt Lake on the eastern fringes of the city. According to the legalization plan, the leasehold plots will be made into freehold ones following the payment of a transfer fee of Rs 5 lakh a cottah. The decision will [...] Continue Reading »
The Haryana cabinet has approved the proposal of the department of town and country planning to increase the license fee for residential plots, group housing and industrial colonies. The increased rates of license fee may impact property rates, especially in new colonies and coming up projects in Gurgaon, Faridabad, Sonepat and Panchkula districts. The cabinet [...] Continue Reading »
The Chennai Corporation has tied up with Indian Overseas Bank, Canara Bank, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank, HDFC bank, City Union Bank, Karur Vysya Bank and Axis Bank for collecting the property taxes in Chennai and other areas of the city. According to an authority of the Chennai Municipality, the property owners can use the net [...] Continue Reading »
