The Hindu 22.08.2009
Corporation putting up notices on tax defaulters’ premises
Staff Reporter
| Action against properties whose owners owe Rs.15 lakh and more |
— Photo: M.Karunakaran 
Reminder: A notice about property tax arrears outside the TICEL Bio Park in Taramani.
CHENNAI: The Chennai Corporation, which is laying greater emphasis on collection of property tax arrears, has started putting up notice boards on the premises of such properties.
Such boards are coming up in front of properties whose owners owe Rs.15 lakh and more to the civic body.
One such board has been put up by the civic body in front of TICEL Bio Park Ltd. in Taramani, an unit of Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation Ltd. Senior officials of the Chennai Corporation said that the notice had been placed after the civic body’s council had denied exemption from property tax as sought by TICEL. “They had applied to us saying that they are a research and development organisation. We have no provision in our rules for exempting such institutions from payment of property tax. We can give exemptions only to educational institutions,” said a senior official. According to official sources, TICEL owes over Rs.20 lakh as arrears.
A senior TICEL official confirmed that some property tax arrears were there but they had claimed exemption as an R&D institution. “We are in correspondence with them [Chennai Corporation]. We are shortly going to open our next phase and had sought time to discuss the matter after that.”
