The Deccan Chronicle 08.11.2010
Deleted names tax civic bodyNov. 7: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has lost revenue worth crores of rupees in the form of transfer duty and property tax arrears with its employees deleting the names of many earlier house owners from its database and entering the names of new owners.
House owners have to register their details with GHMC for getting a property tax index number (PTIN). If a person purchases a house from someone, he has to apply for change of name in GHMC records (mutation) and pay 2.5 per cent transfer duty. The name is changed only if the property has registered documents. In case of notary, no changes are made.
However, some GHMC officials allegedly collected money from owners of notary property and entered their names after deleting those of earlier owners.
Thus, names of several property owners who had to pay tax arrears have been deleted. The GHMC additional commissioner (finance and revenue), Mr Hari Krishna, has ordered verification of all the name changes made in last two years.
“The master data has the details of all the owners and tax arrears,” said Mr Krishna, and added action will be taken against erring employees.
