KMC found 3000 new unassessed properties
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Kolkata- While hunting the targeted revenue, Kolkata Municipal Corporation found that around 3000 properties around Behala and Jadavpur were not estimated. The civic body have been needy to find ways to improve income ever since the Unit Area Assessment method to regulate property tax dropped through.Khalil Ahmed, Municipal Commissioner, issued a circular to the senior assessment department officials and inspectors to take a note of all the building which are not listed and also include the names of the owners of such flats in the tax net three months ago. Three months later after the revenue hunt came to an end the civic bodies found atleast 3000 new taxpayers. The assessment department has found 1,500 flats which are not estimated in EM Bypass area and in the Jadavpur-Santoshpur areas. They recorded thoses owners as taxpayers.
Around 900 flat owners have been added to the KMC revenue book from Behala. Those owners have flats in two major private housing projects, one located at Pathakpara and another at Karunamoyee. Some unassessed housing complexes were found in Tollygunge by the KMC team.
An official of the assessment department said that those unassessed properties, mainly comprising private residential complexes, which will help to fetch good revenue.
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