The Times of India 05.03.2013
Surat
Municipal Corporation starts door-to-door property tax collection drive
The SMC's property tax department officials visited the textile industrial areas in Limbayat zone and collecting Rs 60 lakh tax from the powerloom unit owners.
Sources said that with less than 25 days to go for the financial year to end, the property tax department officials have pulled up their socks to meet the target of Rs 485 crore tax collection.
Until now, the department has been successful in achieving 70 per cent of the target set for the collection of property tax.
Senior officials said that the department has kick started the door-to-door campaign in all the seven municipal zones to collect the pending property tax from the users.
"We are also targeting the residential and commercial users in the municipal zones who are yet to pay their property tax in the door-to-door campaign" said a senior property tax official.