Bangalore: Less
than 24 hours after high court rapped BBMP for its ‘uncivilised’manner
of property collection, Mayor Katte Satyanarayana on Friday said the
educated class figures prominently among tax defaulters. When the BBMP
resort to a collection drive it hurts them, he said.

At the
inaugural session of ‘B.PAC Civic leadership Incubator Program
(B.CLIP)’  he said that industries making a profit of Rs 5 crore and
above have to pay two per cent of their profits to the local municipal
body.

But IT-BT companies are paying all forms of taxes to the
state government. If it is paid to the civic body, the BBMP would get Rs
250 crore, which can be utilised for development work, the Mayor said.

Although
the BBMP jurisdiction houses over 16 lakh properties, less than 10 lakh
property owners pay the tax and it has become tough to bring everyone
under the tax net.

The BBMP revenue authorities are taking the help of technology to bring all the property owners under the tax net, he added.