Pay GHMC Property Tax for the Structures that Lost in the Road-Widening
Lost a portion of property in the road-widening exercise, get ready to pay tax for the entire property you once owned.
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is busy serving notices on owners to pay up property tax for structures that have vanished in the road-widening exercise. Generally, the tax wing has to revise tax details of properties which were taken over in the acquisition after getting information from the town planning wing. But GHMC is forcing property owners to do several rounds of the offices to convince authorities and get property tax details rectified.
GHMC additional commissioner (development planning) K Dhananjaya Reddy admitted that there was lack of coordination between different wings of the civic body. one arm of the corporation (town planning wing) is widening roads by bulldozing hundreds of properties in the city by paying meager compensation, the other arm (tax wing) is busy serving notices on owners to pay up property tax for structures that have vanished in the road-widening exercise.
For instance, the case of retired Osmani University professor Hanmandlu Polasa who gave about 213.5 square yards land at Road No 2, Kakatiyanagar, Habsiguda for widening the inner ring road between Tarnaka and Uppal in 2008. However, the GHMC has now served a demand notice to pay Rs 9,688 (bill no 2011201246478) towards property tax for the 2011-12 financial year for structures that were removed two years ago. When Polasa went to the GHMC’s Uppal circle office to enquire, tax wing officials asked him whether he was given any letter by the town planning exempting him from the property tax for the said property.
“How can the corporation demand property tax for structures demolished by the civic body itself. Last year, they did not send any notice but this year I got one. Some GHMC employees asked us to pay bribe to get the property deleted from the tax list,” a stunned Hanmandlu Polasa said.
Generally, the tax wing has to revise tax details of properties which were taken over in the acquisition after getting information from the town planning wing. Admitting that there was lack of coordination between different wings of the civic body GHMC additional commissioner (development planning) said “But in this case it did not happen, we got it rectified in the records,”
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