Property tax assessment clarified by corporation
Coimbatore- The corporation has started assessing the city’s property tax when a set of questions were put forth. Questions like is the Corporation right in taking into account the plinth area or carpet area while assessing property tax were presented. This question has been posed under the Right to Information Act to the Corporation.
The corporation was questioned by a petitioner relating to the property tax. The questions were related to the parking areas attracting tax, the carpet area and the plinth area and the expiry of a building license.
Responding to all of these questions, a corporation official stated that they calculate the property tax based on Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981. They take into account the type and utility of the building, age of the building, the car parking on the stilt floor, the plinth area, the balcony and the entire building after expiry is considered under tax payment. Perhaps, his response has been disputed.
According to sources, the very Sections 122 and 123 of he Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, the official stated that only the carpet area will be taken into calculating the property tax and not the plinth area.
Section 123, Clause 3 (i) (a) states that basic property tax for every building will be related to the carpet area of the building as per its usage. It also considers if the carpet area of a building does not include an open verandah, a court yard or any other unenclosed open space.
Owing to this, there were complaints that the Corporation should not include the plinth area but the carpet area. However, the sources from the Corporation admit that it is a practice that they calculate the plinth area which is not against the rules.
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