The SMC’s property tax department officials visited
the textile industrial areas in Limbayat zone and collecting Rs 60 lakh
tax from the powerloom unit owners.

Sources said that with less
than 25 days to go for the financial year to end, the property tax
department officials have pulled up their socks to meet the target of Rs
485 crore tax collection.

Until now, the department has been successful in achieving 70 per cent of the target set for the collection of property tax.

Senior officials said that the department has kick started the
door-to-door campaign in all the seven municipal zones to collect the
pending property tax from the users.

“We are also targeting the
residential and commercial users in the municipal zones who are yet to
pay their property tax in the door-to-door campaign” said a senior
property tax official.