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Corpn. plans door-to-door tax collection

Tuesday, 06 April 2010 04:29 administrator
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The Hindu 06.04.2010

Corpn. plans door-to-door tax collection

K.V. Prasad

‘We will launch this system this financial year'

Photo: K. Ananthan

Innovative Initiative:Paying taxes from home by credit or debit cards may become a reality in the city. —

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation is planning door-to-door collection of Property Tax and drinking water consumption charges with the twin objective of being more tax payer-friendly and also to step up revenue.

Equipped with hand-held billing machines, tax collectors of the Corporation will collect the payment and give a receipt at the door step of property owners. People can swipe their credit or debit cards to pay the taxes.

Discussions on

The Corporation is discussing with a private bank and an information technology company on creating a payment gateway and related requirements.

“We will launch this system this financial year,” says Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra.

The Corporation wants to make the tax payment system least cumbersome for the people.

In spite of the Corporation opening a number of tax payment centres and also working out payment through nationalised and private banks, people still seem to find it difficult to reach these centres. Elderly people have problems in travelling and many of those employed are not able to obtain leave or permission to pay taxes, the Commissioner explains.

The door-to-door collection will be quick and smooth. This can be a permanent and effective method. The opening of extra centres and their functioning on holidays also can be only temporary measures to step up collection towards the close of a financial year, the Commissioner points out.

Component

The Corporation has to demonstrate total efficiency in tax collection as the fiscal reforms component of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renwal Mission (JNNURM) mandate it.

According to the mission, efficiency in tax collection points at the ability of a civic body to generate revenue for funding infrastructure development projects or to repay loans obtained for these.

The Commissioner said the Corporation wanted the public to pay taxes promptly and thereby help the civic body fund development in the city. The Corporation will, in turn, enable the people to do that by introducing the door-to-door collection.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 06 April 2010 04:30
 

Corpn claims Rs 85L tax from new assembly

Monday, 05 April 2010 10:04 administrator
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The Times of India 05.04.2010

Corpn claims Rs 85L tax from new assembly

Julie Mariappan, TNN, Apr 5, 2010, 04.33am IST

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.
 

Corporation betters last year’s tax record

Thursday, 01 April 2010 11:25 administrator
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The New Indian Express 01.04.2010

Corporation betters last year’s tax record

G Saravanan


CHENNAI: For the first time in the history of Chennai Corporation, a total collection of its property as well as professional tax revenue reached the Rs 490-crore mark. Last year, the collection of these taxes stood at Rs.414 crore.

According to sources, the total revenue from these taxes have exceeded their own target for 2009- 10 and finally stood at Rs 490 crore. While the property tax collection for the year was Rs.363.83 crore, revenue collected under professional tax reached Rs.126 crore.

On the last day of the financial year, the local body had collected Rs.20 crore. It may be noted that the civic body had collected Rs.18 crore on the last day of last financial year (March 31, 2009).

For 2009-10, the civic body’s revenue department had fixed a target of Rs.350 crore for property tax collection, while Rs.101 crore has been fixed as target for professional tax.

The urban body had collected Rs.323 crore as property tax during 2008-09 against its target of Rs.290 crore. Likewise, for the same period, the Corporation collected Rs.91 crore as professional tax, thus making it to Rs.414 crore in total.

According to Corporation sources there were about 48,000 commercial buildings in the city and were subjected to pay commercial tax every six months. But during the last three to four years there have been reports of under assessment by several tax collectors across all the 10 zones of the Corporation and after the top brass cracked the whip against errant tax collectors the tax revenue had witnessed a steep rise.

Last Updated on Thursday, 01 April 2010 11:27
 
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