Indian Express 17.08.2010
Action plan to bring 10 lakh properties in tax net
Express News Service Tags : property tax, delhi Posted: Tue Aug 17 2010, 01:51 hrs
New Delhi: FAced with a fund crunch, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has prepared an action plan for better house tax collections, focussed on bringing nearly 10 lakh more properties under the tax net from this fiscal.The civic body also said it will soon send notices to all defaulters it has identified so far and also take stringent action against defaulters, including attachment of immovable properties.
A recent survey conducted by the agency revealed that a total of 4,816 properties in the Capital have pending property tax dues upto Rs 5 lakh each.
The MCD’s assessment and collection department’s ‘Action Plan’ for 2010-11 was considered at a special meeting of the Standing Committee on Monday.
Municipal Commissioner K S Mehra said to aid the identification of properties, data received from various sources like the Survey of India, the Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure and MCD’s own door-to-door survey will be streamlined and computerised in six months. The agency said the plan will add 9.8 lakh more taxpayers in 2010-11, with the highest target of 1.3 lakh each in the Central, West and Nazafgarh zones.
While MCD records earlier claimed the DMRC owed Rs 252 crore as property tax, the final due amount has been computed at Rs 12 crore, after it was decided that the Delhi Metro will be liable to pay service charge or property tax as applicable for commercial development outside the station premises.
Mehra added that the agency was planning to do away with the system of accepting payments through cheques due to a number of dishonoured cheque cases.
