property taxes
Ropar- Ropar Municipal Council has given its approval for the imposition of property tax in the town against opposition by some of its councillors. The Punjab government had proposed imposition of property tax and few of the councillors opposed it saying that paying property tax would be a burden to the residents in the town. [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- A new survey will be conducted by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) in order to increase the number of properties under tax net. However, the deliberative wing of the civic body is not in favour to increase property taxes due to political compulsion factors. The corporation is further planning of alternatives which can fetch maximum number [...] Continue Reading »
New Delhi- The non payment of property tax by the owners has led to various actions by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation. Last week, the SDMC resorted to drum beating in front of the tax defaulter‘s houses to embarrass them by announcing their name in public. Drum beating tactic was carried out to embarrass people who hadn’t paid their [...] Continue Reading »
Chandigarh- At least for one year the citizens need not have to worry about paying property tax. The Congress made sure that the property tax item was taken out of the checklist for house meeting. Sources explained that MP Pawan Kumar Bansal advised councillors towards raking the concern in 2013. In the meeting it was made clear [...] Continue Reading »
The Nashik Municipal Corporation(NMC) administration has tied up with some select nationalized and scheduled banks for collection of property taxes. The property tax can be deposited at around 80 branches of some nationalized and scheduled banks within the NMC limits. Collection of the property taxes at the select bank branches is expected to commence within [...] Continue Reading »
Residents of cities and towns across Assam will be able to use their mobile phones to check their property taxes from next year onwards. Assam’s urban development department has decided to launch an e-governance project, under which the property tax collection system will be streamlined to bring in more transparency. The programme will include 89 [...] Continue Reading »
In order to earn additional revenue of about Rs 1000 crores, Punjab Cabinet has decided to impose property tax on vacant lands among various other measures. Along with built up buildings, vacant plots and semi-built up units have also been brought under the purview of the proposed tax. All vacant plots would attract 25 per [...] Continue Reading »
Properties in North Delhi Municipal Corporation are to get identity numbers as the corporation incurred huge losses due to the absence of database of the number of properties that are liable to pay taxes. In order to improve the Corporation’s finances, it is mandatory that all properties pay taxes. This year it earned only Rs [...] Continue Reading »
The Haryana government has to met with the anger of the residents for its new property taxes rules. The citizens are calling it a scheme to extort double tax from them. The government had announced a token Rs 1 property tax per square yard on residential properties of 250 square yards or less and apartments [...] Continue Reading »
The Urban Development Ministry has proposed to increase the property taxes in Mumbai Municipal area. The ministry planned to increase the funds for the development of Urban infrastructure. Though the idea of investing more in urban infrastructure is appreciable, the outcome of increasing tax will make the houses unaffordable for the residents of metro cities. [...] Continue Reading »
