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Rs 370cr property tax dues pending

Monday, 20 May 2013 00:00 administrator
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The Times of India                20.05.2013

Rs 370cr property tax dues pending

PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation will initiate steps to recover property tax arrears worth Rs 370.53 crore accumulated till 2012-13.

Speaking to TOI, municipal commissioner Shrikar Pardeshi said, "A part of the property tax arrears was stuck in litigations and could not be recovered. Instructions have been given to the chief accountant to identify the cases so that recovery can be initiated. If we find that civic officials have been negligent in recovering the arrears then action will be taken against them."

The move comes after Raju Salve, vice-president of the environment cell of Pimpri Chinchwad unit of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), received information through his query under Right To Information (RTI) Act that the civic body has failed to recover property tax arrears worth Rs 370.53 crore from 1.51 lakh properties in 2012-13 which also includes previous arrears worth Rs 246.30 crore.

Salve in his letter to Pardeshi demanded departmental inquiry against civic officials who have been negligent in recovering the arrears and asked for legal action against them. He said that the property tax department has failed to recover arrears from marriage halls, educational organizations, industries, big colonies and others. He also demanded that the civic body must publish names of the big defaulters in newspapers under section 4 of RTI Act 2005.

There are 15 divisions of property tax department in the city. Around Rs 70 crore of property tax arrears need to be recovered from Nigdi division, which is the highest. The second highest is of Rs 52.01 crore from Thergaon division while the third highest of Rs 45.94 crore is from the PCMC main office building division. Rs 2.64 crore from Charholi division and Rs 4.73 crore from Talawade division are the lowest amounts.

Shahji Pawar, assistant commissioner and chief of property tax department, said, "The department cannot recover arrears of Rs 80 crore due to pending court cases. The state government organizations owe Rs 70 crore. Also Central government organizations owe around Rs 13 crore. The department has made maximum efforts to recover the arrears and succeeded in collecting an all-time high tax of Rs 261.03 crore in 2012-13.

The department has sent notices to the defaulters as well as sealed properties of some defaulters. Moreover, the department charges a 2% fine per month on arrears from defaulters."

 

Pune Municipal Corporation mops up Rs 7 cr from local body tax

Saturday, 18 May 2013 00:00 administrator
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The Times of India                18.05.2013

Pune Municipal Corporation mops up Rs 7 cr from local body tax

PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), which is facing a revenue crunch, since the abolition of octroi has reason to cheer. It has mopped up Rs 7 crore from the local body tax (LBT) since the beginning of May.

Octroi, a key revenue source for the civic body, was replaced with LBT on April 1. Octroi would generate a daily revenue of Rs 3 crore and up to Rs 100 crore a month. In 2012-13, the civic body had registered revenue of Rs 1,200 crore from octroifor the 2012-13 fiscal for the civic body. Officials working in the local body tax department of the PMC said told TOI awareness about LBT is increasing, but the response from the traders is poorwas hardly exciting.

The traders are opposing the implementation of LBTand had said that as they believe it would hamper their businesses. The traders' associations have been on an indefinite strike since May 8 and most have kept their business closed.

"The response has increased in the last two days. Registered traders will have to make their payments for the LBT by May 20 or they will have to pay a fine as well as interest on the tax from from May 21," said Vilas Kanade, deputy commissioner (LBT) of the civic body.

The civic body on Friday collected over Rs 4 crore as LBT. He added that the PMC expects an increase in the revenue of LBT will as registered traders can only pay on May 18 and 20 as May 19 is a Sunday.

Over 63,000 traders in the city had registered for LBT till April 30, the deadline set by the civic body. Others, who have not registered for the LBT yet, may either have to pay five times more tax or stop business activities.

 

Rajkot civic body collects Rs 46 crores as advance tax

Saturday, 18 May 2013 00:00 administrator
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The Times of India                18.05.2013

Rajkot civic body collects Rs 46 crores as advance tax

RAJKOT: The Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) has started advance property tax collections from the city with giving incentives to advance tax payers in the city and it has already collected Rs 46 crore as advance property tax.

"People are queue up at various centers of tax collections of RMC as RMC has offered 10 percent rebate on advance tax payment to general people and 15 percent rebate to women property holders. We are getting good response from the citizen and are hopeful that more people would come forward and would pay their advance property tax'' said an RMC official.

RMC officials said that more than 1 lakh tax payers have paid tax in advance in the city. RMC officials also said that they have set target of Rs 180 crore of property tax during 2013-14 financial years in the city. During the 2012-13 financial years, RMC collected Rs 160 crore as property tax from the city.

 
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