The Hindu 17.08.2013
Civic body eyes higher property tax revenue
Government asks civic body to reassess properties in the twin cities for revised tax
The government has directed the Greater Hyderabad Municipal
Corporation (GHMC) to reassess properties in the twin cities for revised
tax at the earliest, considering that self-assessment of property tax
was carried out 15 years ago.
Principal Secretaries of the
Department of Municipal Administration & Urban Development S.K.
Joshi and Adhar Sinha on Friday held a review meeting on the GHMC works
where they directed officials to bring each and every property under the
tax net by utilising the services of various functionaries.
In
his presentation, GHMC Commissioner M.T. Krishna Babu said that 330 bill
collectors and 50 tax inspectors were involved in collecting the tax.
Till August 7, the collection has been Rs. 288.81 crore compared to Rs.
245.52 crore during the corresponding period last year, i.e., around Rs.
43.29 crore more, he said.
The Principal Secretaries assured the
GHMC on settling issues such as recovery of service tax from Railways
and other departments and speedy release of the funds promised by the
government. Mr. Krishna Babu was also asked to take up the much delayed
Charminar Pedestrianisation Project immediately.
All the
field-level functionaries utilising the services of Off Site Real Time
(OSRT) system were directed to capture the functions of the corporation
and upload the information on GHMC website, irrespective of their
department.
Responding to a request for a separate tribunal for
Town Planning, the senior officials observed that there should be a
single integrated tribunal to sort out various issues of GHMC instead of
having one for each subject.
