Property tax collection
Gurgaon- The news of sudden transfer of the Gurgaon municipal commissioner, Vijay Singh Dahiya, has made people worry about the speed of development of the city. Though MCG Commissioner Vijay Singh Dahiya had took the position only two months before, the developmental works had gained momentum. Few days ago, Dahiya received his transfer orders and [...] Continue Reading »
With the completion of the survey for levying property tax on the basis of Geographic Information System (GIS), the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation is all set to issue special notices. The relocation to GIS is one of the developments under the Jawaharlal National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) on property tax. However, there has been a [...] Continue Reading »
The Chennai Corporation has decided to conduct a study on buildings including courts, police stations and police quarters yet to be covered under the property tax. The revenue department of Chennai Corporation has intensified efforts to increase property tax collection. The civic body plans to issue notices to buildings that have failed to pay property [...] Continue Reading »
While the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) announced to start the tax collection drive, it was alleged that it had targeted lower and middle class to collect property tax. Now, the BBMP has come up with the list of 20 major property tax defaulters, who owe almost Rs 16.58 crore to the civic agency. Big [...] Continue Reading »
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has started an extensive drive to collect dues from property tax evaders from the city. The civic body has begun the drive as they are taking a strict stand against tax evaders. The municipal commissioner stated that they will start to seize properties of those who refuse to pay [...] Continue Reading »
JnNURM directorate under the Ministry of Urban Development has issued a circular to the principal secretaries of urban development departments of all the states and union territories to adopt BBMP’s model of the property identification (PID) system. Based on Geographic Information System(GIS), BBMP has developed PID numbers to be allotted to properties for property tax [...] Continue Reading »
The tax on commercial property in Chandigarh may be increased in near future. The issue is to be taken up at the meeting of the House Tax committee to be held in the coming days and the extent of the increase would be decided after a discussion at the meeting. Property tax on commercial property [...] Continue Reading »
Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has decided to auction 14 properties of the defaulters in order to strengthen its property tax collection drive. The drive is to be held between July 16 and July 21. The Corporation has so far collected Rs 84.31 crore as property tax which is 28 crore more than the previous year. [...] Continue Reading »
In a noteworthy step taken up by the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), a special drive held for two days at all ten zone offices saw settling of 800 pending cases. The property owners’ applications were stuck for over a year even after they had submitted all the required documents. Most of the cases involve issuing [...] Continue Reading »
The Corporation of Chennai has taken up recent initiative to collect an estimated property tax of Rs. 750 crore in the year 2012-13. While the department is hopeful of this renewed tax efforts, there are key challenges ahead which are yet to be addressed. As for reaching the estimated target of 750 crore, groundwork has [...] Continue Reading »
