property tax
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) aims to collect Rs 1800 crore from property tax, as per new assessment reports of KMC’s revenue department. Presently, the KMC collects Rs 530 crore from property tax. To take the massive leap, the KMC is set to introduce online payment of trade license fees and contractors’ dues. Apart from this, [...] Continue Reading »
Under the newly implemented capital value-based system that was approved last month, owners of buildings in Mumbai, which have come up after 2010 will have to pay property tax arrears from April 2010 in this financial year. For older buildings also the final bill will be adjusted to reflect the outstanding or refund amount calculated [...] Continue Reading »
In a verdict ensuring that the city’s home buyers can have exclusive ownership rights and they do not have to struggle to sell it, obtain loan on it or leave it to their children as legally accepted endowment, the Delhi high court directed the land-owning agencies of the city to execute for flat buyers a [...] Continue Reading »
In the wake of over 50,000 objections raised by the residents regarding house tax, the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon has decided to deal with the issue finally. The corporation is to hold meetings in a daily basis in which, they will be inviting those who have filed objections and take necessary steps to resolve the [...] 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 »
Yet another story of lack of political consensus coming in way of urban reform surfaces in Punjab when BJP opposes the imposition of property tax in Punjab as drafted by its political ally SAD. Punjab is aiming to generate more revenue to help out the fund starved finance department. As a consequence of BJP’s opposition, [...] Continue Reading »
In a new move, the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to start linking property tax on newly constructed houses promptly. The tax would be linked as soon as the building completion certificate (BCC) is issued to the developer. The move came across as an effort to increase revenue for the NMC by levying house [...] Continue Reading »
While opposing the proposed increase on property tax in the civic budget, the Nashik Municipal Corporation‘s (NMC) standing committee (SC) points out at alternative areas of revenue generation. They have suggested levying of commercial tax on small businesses operating out of domestic premises. Standing committee chairman Uddhav Nimse stated that out of 1,132 galas owned [...] 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 »
