NMC directs property tax dept to probe selective tax waivers
Nashik- Following an issue raised by an opposition leader at the general body meeting regarding selective waiving of property tax, the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) asked the property tax department to conduct a probe on the issue.
The opposition leader, Sudhakar Badgujar, had claimed that the deputy commissioner (taxes) has selectively waiving property tax worth Rs 2 crore for a construction firm and Rs 6 lakh for a hotel. The property tax department has been asked to submit the details at the next general body meeting.
The municipal commissioner told that the tax officials will soon look into the matter. He said that the process of computerising records of all the properties and giving code numbers has already been started which will help in a systematic assessment of properties.
NMC collects property taxes from the residents, industries and shops and the tax has been classified into residential and non-residential. There is further difference in case of non-residential properties. The industrial estates under the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC), especially Satpur and Ambad which comes under the NMC limits, are levied different value.
The Corporation collects a property tax of Rs 4.40 to Rs 4.45 per square metre from industries and Rs 11 per sq metre is calculated from business houses. Rules for commercial properties should also be the same, said the leader.
The civic body charges property tax of Rs 22 per sq metre for hotels, but it is collecting less amount from some of the hotels, waving as much as 50 percent which is wrong and illegal. Moreover, such a system causes financial losses to the civic authority.
The leader said that one of the hotels in Nashik, built across an area of 8,261.50 sq metres, was levied a tax of only Rs 6.91 lakh, whereas the actual property tax sums up to Rs 19.62 lakh. Moreover, property tax worth Rs 2 crore was waived to favour a construction firm without even taking permission from the municipal commissioner or the general body.
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