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Property tax payment via mobile launched by mayor

Thursday, 10 September 2009 12:14 administrator
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The Times of India 10.09.2009

Property tax payment via mobile launched by mayor

TNN 10 September 2009, 04:37am IST

CHENNAI: Mayor M Subramanian on Wednesday launched the payment of property tax through internet-enabled mobile phones. Tax can now be paid anywhere and anytime using credit or debit cards.

After the launch, Subramanian said Bangalore-based ngpay had developed the software to enable payment via all GPRS-enabled low-end and high-end phones. To avail themselves of the service, payees have to download the application on their phones by smsing ngpay' to 56767. After installation and a one-time registration process, they can begin pay tax from mobile phones," he said.

The Chennai Corporation had already introduced other modes of payment, including through the Internet, ECS and credit cards, to help tax payers avoid queueing up at ward offices and zonal offices. "The confirmation of payment will be made through post," corporation commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni said.

In the current fiscal year, the corporation plans to realise Rs 370 crore through property tax. With a whopping Rs 425 crore in arrears till date, engineering staff, including junior engineers, executive engineers and sanitary officials, have also been deployed for tax collection.

Ten blackberry smartphones were given to Nungambakkam zone to facilitate speedy collection of tax. Neither the DMK nor the AIADMK-led councils in the past had tried to hike the tax rates.

 

Now, use your mobile to pay property tax

Thursday, 10 September 2009 09:57 administrator
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The New Indian Express 10.09.2009

Now, use your mobile to pay property tax

Express News Service
CHENNAI: Chennai Corporation on Wednesday launched an M-governance project under which the residents can pay their property tax through mobile phones.

 

Speaking to reporters after launching the scheme, Mayor M Subramanian said, “The service will provide the citizens of Chennai with the convenience of paying property tax anywhere, anytime and can be used on all GPRS-enabled low end as well as high-end mobile phones.” This is the first time in the country that any property tax payment service is being offered over the mobile phone. Since the DMK-led regime took over the Corporation Council three years ago, the civic body has registered a steady growth in property tax collection year after year, he said.

 

In 2006-07, the Corporation collected Rs 231 crore as property tax, in 2007-08, it has gone up Rs 291 crore and in the last financial year (2008-09), we have collected Rs 323 crore for the tax kitty, the Mayor further said. He also announced that the civic body is targeting Rs 375 crore as property tax collection for the current financial year (2009-10) and it has collected around Rs 117 crore till Tuesday. Manoj Nair, senior vice president of the service provider ngpay, said, “To avail the service which is exclusively available on ngpay, citizens will have to download the secure ngpay application on to their GPRS-enabled mobile phones by sending an SMS to ngpay to 56767.”

 

Corporation to levy uniform tax on vacant lands

Tuesday, 08 September 2009 00:51 administrator
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The Hindu 08.09.2009

Corporation to levy uniform tax on vacant lands

Special Correspondent

Coimbatore: The Coimbatore Corporation will levy tax on vacant lands only on a square feet basis across the city instead of the present system of a percentage of the market value of the lands in each area.

An all-party meeting of the Corporation on Monday discussed this proposal made in the Third State Finance Commission’s recommendations and this would be formally recorded in the Corporation Council at its next meeting.

Mayor R. Venkatachalam, Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra, Deputy Mayor N. Karthik, officials and leaders of various parties in the council took part.

The Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department said in an order dated August 20, 2009 that the levy of tax on vacant lands should be on the basis of a rate per square foot fixed by the government instead of the capital value of the lands.

The laws or rules relating to the municipal corporations (other than Chennai) and municipalities had been amended and the amended ones took effect on September 1, this year.

The amended rules were now called the Tamil Nadu Town Panchayats, Third Grade Municipalities, Municipalities and Municipal Corporations (Levy of Property Tax on Vacant Lands) Rules, 2009.

The order said the rates had been fixed for three categories of urban local bodies. They were:

A Grade: municipal corporations and special grade municipalities; B Grade: selection grade and first grade municipalities and C Grade: second grade and third grade municipalities and town panchayats.

Property Tax

The all-party meeting also approved the Corporation’s proposal to insist on submission of building plans and payment of development charges along with these in order to get buildings assessed for Property Tax.

The assessment for tax would be made even if the plans were rejected, Mr. Mishra said after the meeting.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 08 September 2009 01:00
 
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