property tax
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) has registered an increase of about 33 per cent in its tax collection as compared to the previous year. According to AMC officials, during the period from April 1 to October 15, AMC collected taxes around Rs 413.42 crore, while the corporation had collected Rs 311.85 crore during the same period [...] Continue Reading »
The Secundrabad Cantonment Board (SCB) has set triennial revenue target at Rs 60 crore. It has completed the triennial revision of property tax of around 300 commercial establishments in its jurisdiction. SCB has done the triennial revision after a gap of 10 years. Cantonment Board had formed special teams and visited all the commercial properties [...] Continue Reading »
Owing to confusion created in the minds of home buyers, the consumer organisations in Maharashtra have come together to address flat owners’ concern over paying the Maharashtra Value Added Tax (MVAT) to builders. Three organisations – Sajag Nagarik Manch, the Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat and the Grahak Hitwardhini have organised an awareness programme on October [...] Continue Reading »
The Municipal Corporation of Guragon (MCG) has conceded that it will fall way short of achieving property tax target it has set for itself in the current financial year. The MCG aimed to collect Rs 500 crore this year. However, even after six months it has barely managed to collect only around Rs 50 crore [...] Continue Reading »
Due to a software problem, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation‘s (BMC) plan to send out property tax bills by September has been delayed. The property tax bills are likely to be delivered to citizens in November. The BMC has demanded the software developer to hand over the software by October 15. Once the software is acquired, there [...] 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 nerve center of Chennai, Anna Salai has the maximum number of high-value property tax evaders. Most of the properties in the city corporation fall into the tax defaulters list. About 50 properties of Anna Salai fall under the top 50 tax arrears list and the tax arrears of each of these properties range between [...] Continue Reading »
Around 20,000 property owners from the South Delhi colonies like Green Park, Lajpat Nagar and Hauz Khas are to face criminal charges for not paying the property tax. About 1000 notices were sent to property owners by the property tax department of South Delhi Corporation. Around 30,000 properties in three of the four zones of [...] Continue Reading »
The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) general body has passed the proposal to implement the new property tax system based on the capital value of properties. The assessment value has been fixed at 0.1 per cent of the capital value. The final report will be submitted to the general body after forming an all party committee [...] Continue Reading »
The e-payment property tax facility introduced in Hubli-Dharwad 6 months ago has failed to create an impact. The e-payment facility was initiated by the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) to make the system hassle free and people friendly. Most of the citizens prefer the manual method of paying their property tax. The studies have shown that [...] Continue Reading »
