Property tax bills
Residents of housing societies in Mumbai are planning to stage a dharna and one day hunger strike at Azad Maidan to protest the new property tax system. The major concern of the residents lies with the ground realities which affects a property’s price, are not taken into consideration in the ready-reckoner rates. They claim it [...] Continue Reading »
With the increasing protests from the citizens of Maharashtra against new property tax system, a demand for a stay on the regime has now been made to the state government. Recently, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had introduced the new property tax system in the state, following which many protests were witnessed. A MP from North [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai- With rising number of oppositions to the new property tax system introduced by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the Maharashtra chief minister has been requested to issue stay on the regime. One of the member of parliament has asked CM Prithviraj Chavan to order a stay against the new system because under the new [...] Continue Reading »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) seemed to have juggled up the guidelines to calculate the new property tax system. The property tax under the capital value-based system has missed out on some key factors to compute the same. The civic body has not taken into account several factors like leased and freehold land as well [...] Continue Reading »
With the new property tax system in place, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is yet to frame guidelines to decide on weightages needed for calculation of the tax. For buildings with multiple-age and construction types, deciding on the weightages is one of the crucial parameters for calculation of the tax. A weightage is defined as the capital value [...] Continue Reading »
As per data with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), around 81 % of the properties in Mumbai remain unaffected from the recent hike in property tax. With the new capital value-based property tax system in place, the citizens have been unhappy regarding the same and many plan to contest in High Court. However, 81% of [...] Continue Reading »
Unconvinced with the new way of calculating property tax, citizens in Mumbai are planning to move to Bombay High Court regarding the same. The new method is based on the capital value-based system. The major concern of the residents lies with the ground realities which affects a property’s price, are not taken into consideration in [...] Continue Reading »
Now, citizens in Pune can breathe a sigh of relief. With increasing complaints from citizens of not receiving property tax bills or getting them too late to avail a 10 percent tax rebate, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has introduced a tool on their website for their ease. Around six lakh properties in Pune come [...] Continue Reading »
With the new property tax bills arriving, residents from Mumbai suburbs have joined hands against it. With this, the rest of the city also is not behind and has melded into chorus. The residents claim that the new system is ‘draconian’ and has slapped exorbitant arrears which have to be paid within March 15. As [...] Continue Reading »
Nagpur- Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has appointed assistant tax assessors for all ten zones to improve and strengthen its functions and department. Out of all assessors, only VR Rewatkar is a senior engineer and the rest nine are of deputy engineer’s rank from water works department. They will be given the responsibilty of hearing the [...] Continue Reading »
