Kolkata municipality collects Rs 80 lakh property tax in one month
The Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) municipality has collected Rs 80, 81,000 as property tax and started sending bills to all the residents.
Around 1,696 owners have paid property tax accounted to Rs 80,81,000 till the last day of October.
According to the municipality chairman Ashesh Mukherjee, the municipality is expecting to collect Rs 9 crore as property tax in which all the pending bills will be cleared.
The problem of tax collection started since the property tax increased between 4% and 40% after the recommendations were implemented from second quarter of 2005. The hike in tax, made the citizens pay at least double of the actual tax, hence they stopped paying any.
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