The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has decided to streamline the tax collection operations.

It has invited request for proposal (RFP) for collection of property tax, trade licence fee, advertisement tax, estate collection, profession tax, etc, using hand-held computers (HHC). It plans to automate the services and make it online and use of HHC will facilitate collections under different services or heads by a single bill collector.

GHMC officials told Express that firms should provide HHC with necessary operating system and application software for all types of revenue collections using a single device. One single device to be provided for every docket (about 4,000 property assessments). The technical bids will be opened on September 13 and commercial bids will be opened later.

At present, GHMC is collecting property tax using HHC. All the five zones have been divided into 334 dockets, each with 4,000 assessed properties and one bill collector with HHC.

The GHMC has five zones, 18 circles, 150 wards and several localities in wards. It collects taxes, fees, penalty from citizens under different heads. Each ward or combination of wards will have an inspector and bill collector.

The automation will consist of two stages. The first is the development of an integrated application to be run on any model/make of HHC to issue and collect  demand notices for property tax, trade licence, advertisement tax, estate collection, profession tax etc. The developed application will be owned by GHMC. The second stage includes operation and execution of the project by providing the requisite number of HHCs along with qualified operators for about three years.

 HHC will get the area citizen master data with tax details. The in-charge chooses service for which a transaction will be carried out and will be able to generate memo, collect tax/penalty and manage survey/new registration.

The firms have to equip the HHC with necessary operating system and application software for revenue collections using a single device. A single device will be provided for a docket.