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GHMC warns pending applicants for BPS

Friday, 23 April 2010 05:02 administrator
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The Hindu 23.04.2010

GHMC warns pending applicants for BPS

Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD: The GHMC is warning pending applicants for the Building Penalisation Scheme (BPS) with a 25 per cent hike in property tax and also the threat of cutting power, water and sewerage connections if they do not get them cleared.

Using all the regulatory powers it has, the Municipal Corporation in the detailed show cause notices being issued has stated that other than demolition of the unauthorised construction or the deviated portion, the applicants are told that a separate fee of 10 per cent of the total building and land will be levied if these notices too are ignored. Sealing the premises is also another option. All the 18 Deputy Municipal Commissioners (DMCs) concerned have been empowered to issue the final notices directing applicants to pay the penal amounts or any of the documents not yet submitted like the copy of the old sanctioned plan, structural stability, copy of registered ownership documents, latest property tax receipts and photograph of the building have to be filed. In case of the multi-storied building, no objection certificates from the Fire Services Department and Airport Authority of India (AAI) also have to be filed. Applicants have seven days to comply with the notices from the date of when they are issued after which penal action will follow, said Additional Commissioner (Planning & Projects) K. Dhanunjaya Reddy. The DMCs have been given a free hand to issue the notices either through post, courier or by hand. Having cleared little more than 90,000 BPS applications, GHMC is still saddled with at least 70,000 which can be processed.

Last Updated on Friday, 23 April 2010 05:06
 

MCD tax target missed

Monday, 19 April 2010 10:57 administrator
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Indian Express 19.04.2010

MCD tax target missed

Express News Service Tags : property tax, corporation Posted: Monday , Apr 19, 2010 at 0231 hrs

New delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has missed its target for property tax collection yet again - the fourth consecutive time since it introduced the unit area method of property tax collection. Newsline takes a look

* The MCD has collected an all-time high Rs 1084 crores as property tax for the 2009-10 fiscal.

* Of this, Rs 409 crores was received as transfer duty.

* The agency, however, failed yet again in achieving its collection target. The target was fixed at Rs 1,150 crores.

* According to MCD’s records, this year’s property tax collection figures seem to be more promising. It had managed to collect Rs 1,064 crores as property tax and transfer duty during the 2008-09 fiscal against the target of Rs 1,462 crore.

Around 9.73 lakh people - 40 per cent of the total eligible tax payers in Delhi - paid their property taxes this time.

* The new system of property tax was used by 3,74,650 taxpayers in 2009-10 financial year, as compared to the last year’s figure of 3,29,098.

* According to MCD officials, unauthorised colonies, rural and urban villages are the MCD’s weakest spot when it comes to property tax collection, where the compliance level is from 20 to 5 per cent.

* Last year, only around 8.63 lakh people had paid their property taxes.

* The agency will now begin a door-to-door survey to identify all eligible tax payers across the 12 municipal zones in Delhi. * Around 3,500 domestic breeding checkers (for vector-borne diseases) will be employed to carry out the survey since the MCD is facing a major shortage of staff in the assessment and collection department

Last Updated on Monday, 19 April 2010 10:59
 

MCC to ask Government to clear confusion over property tax hike

Friday, 16 April 2010 05:14 administrator
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The Hindu 16.04.2010

MCC to ask Government to clear confusion over property tax hike

Special Correspondent

Representatives of NGOs meet Manivannan and Raikar

 

MCC recently hiked the property tax rate by

15 per cent

Non-governmental organisations describe it as illegal and threaten to file a PIL

MYSORE: The confusion over hike in property tax continues to stalk the Mysore City Corporation (MCC) which has decided to write to the State Government to clarify on the issue.

The MCC recently hiked the property tax rate by 15 per cent with effect from April 1, 2010, citing the Karnataka Municipal Corporation (KMC) Act as per which property tax rates are automatically hiked by 15 per cent every year.

Meetings

Though the NGOs in the city described it as illegal and threatened to file a PIL against it, the MCC remained adamant despite a couple of meetings.

However, a group of citizens, including H.V.S. Murthy of the Taxpayers' Federation, M. Lakshmana of the Association of Concerned and Informed Citizens of Mysore (ACICM), and others met Deputy Commissioner P. Manivannan and MCC Commissioner K.S. Raikar here on Thursday and confronted them with legal documents, forcing the authorities to write to the Government seeking a clarification.

Guidance value

Mr. Murthy and Mr. Lakshmana told The Hindu that the property tax under the Self-Assessment Scheme (SAS) came into effect in Mysore on March 7, 2005, and the authorities used the prevailing guidance value to compute the tax rates and this should have remained constant.

Revised

But in August 2006, the guidance value was changed, though it had to remain in vogue for at least three years. But the Mysore City Corporation adopted the revised guidance value for computing the property tax with effect from January 1, 2007, which, the NGOs claimed, was illegal.

Anomaly

“We are not opposed to the hike the property tax which automatically comes into vogue once in three years under the law, but what is objectionable is that the guidance value itself was revised and we are fighting the anomaly and seeking to reverse the discrepancy that has crept in the computation of the property tax rates,” Mr. Lakshman said.

“In our assessment, the hike in property tax which was effected in 2007 based on the revised guidance value was wrong,” Mr. Murthy said.

The non-governmental organisations said that the Deputy Commissioner and the corporation Commissioner had agreed that there was confusion while admitting to their mistake and promised to write to the government seeking clarification on the issue.

Memorandum

Mr. Murthy submitted a memorandum to Minister for Urban Development S. Suresh Kumar, who is also in-charge of Mysore district, to revoke the hike in property tax brought into effect from this financial year.

Mr. Manivannan told The Hindu that the Mysore City Corporation would write to the appropriate authorities and seek a clarification from them to clear the air on the issue.

If property owners remitted tax at the enhanced rate and the government ruled that the hike was not in order, then the difference of amount would be adjusted next year, he said.

Last Updated on Friday, 16 April 2010 05:25
 
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