The Times of India         07.10.2010

Circular for halt to harassment

KOLKATA: KMC has issued a circular asking its assessment officials to stop harassment of taxpayers. This followed complaints that the department's employees were harassing taxpayers before the introduction of the Unit Area Assessment method of computing property tax.

In the circular, municipal commissioner Arnab Roy directed that no further General Revaluations (GRs) will be notified or published for wards where GRs are pending. For wards where the assessment list has been prepared and the process of determining annual valuation is either complete or is under way, notices will be sent to owners inviting objections.

The KMC commissioner has also stressed on mutation, separation or apportionment of properties and has asked assessment officials to give due credence to applicants. tnn