The Times of India 05.04.2010
Corpn claims Rs 85L tax from new assembly
CHENNAI: The new assembly- secretariat complex on Anna Salai may become the city corporation’s top payer of property tax, with the revenue department fixing a sum of Rs 85.02 lakh for half a year.
The complex falls in Ward 80 of the Ice House zone. After the building construction division of the Public Works Department submitted floor plans and floor-wise plinth area of Block A of the complex, revenue officials assessed the property. The total extent of the built-up area, comprising the ground and six floors, is estimated at 9.3 lakh sq ft (86,458.48 sqm).
For the revenue wing, which leads other departments through various e-governance initiatives, the calculation of property tax figures was not a laborious task. “There was no manual calculation. Everything was done on computers, taking the value of the basic rates of the area and annual rental value of the property into account,” said a senior official. The local body computerised the department to help tax assessors, who would otherwise have toiled with the voluminous records for calculation.
Sources told TOI that the payment had not yet been made, even as the fiscal ended on March 31. In terms of tax liability, the new secretariat complex is closely followed by Khivraj Tech Park Pvt Ltd in Guindy Industrial Estate on Jawaharlal Nehru Salai, with Rs 77.52 lakh. The state-owned TIDEL park, another landmark building in south Chennai, pays half-year tax of Rs 19.33 lakh.
The complex falls in Ward 80 of the Ice House zone. After the building construction division of the Public Works Department submitted floor plans and floor-wise plinth area of Block A of the complex, revenue officials assessed the property. The total extent of the built-up area, comprising the ground and six floors, is estimated at 9.3 lakh sq ft (86,458.48 sqm).
For the revenue wing, which leads other departments through various e-governance initiatives, the calculation of property tax figures was not a laborious task. “There was no manual calculation. Everything was done on computers, taking the value of the basic rates of the area and annual rental value of the property into account,” said a senior official. The local body computerised the department to help tax assessors, who would otherwise have toiled with the voluminous records for calculation.
Sources told TOI that the payment had not yet been made, even as the fiscal ended on March 31. In terms of tax liability, the new secretariat complex is closely followed by Khivraj Tech Park Pvt Ltd in Guindy Industrial Estate on Jawaharlal Nehru Salai, with Rs 77.52 lakh. The state-owned TIDEL park, another landmark building in south Chennai, pays half-year tax of Rs 19.33 lakh.
