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The Hindu 12.02.2010

Corporation opens additional tax collection centres

Special Correspondent

Photo: K. Ananthan

For prompt payment: Mayor R. Venkatachalam (second right) inaugurates a Tax Collection Centre of the Corporation at Varadarajapuram in the city on Thursday. Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra (right) is in the picture. —

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Corporation opened on Thursday two computerised tax collection centres to further decentralise collection and also to step it up in view of just a month-and-a-half left for the close of the financial year.

Mayor R. Venkatachalam and Corporation Commissioner Anshul Mishra opened the new centres at Varadarajapuram in Singanallur and at Ondipudur. Deputy Mayor N. Karthik, East Zone Chairman S.M. Samy, councillors and officials were present.

The Corporation said that the centre at Varadarajapuram was in the civic body’s marriage hall and the one at Ondipudur was in the office of the Sanitary Inspector. With these, East Zone now had four centres. It had only two so far while the other zones had four to five each. Now, the total number of computerised tax collection centres was 14. Two more would be opened in North Zone.

The Corporation wanted the people to pay taxes and water charges promptly as the civic body had provided collection centres as close to their residential areas as possible.

People were generally of the opinion that there was time till March 31 to pay the taxes. This invariably led to last-minute rush and punitive action, such as disconnection of water lines, by the Corporation for defaulting payment.

Till March 31, eight collection centres of the Corporation, functioning at the main and zone offices and at Sungam, Tatabad and Saibaba Colony receive tax payments everyday (including Saturday and Sunday) till 5 p.m. Property owners should make use of this facility and pay taxes immediately, the Corporation said.

The Hindu 04.02.2010

Tax collection drive intensified

Staff Reporter

SALEM: The Salem Corporation has intensified the tax collection exercise in the city. All the seven computerised tax collection centres in the city will remain open all days including Saturday and Sundays till March 31.

The civic body operates computerised centres at Sooramangalam, Hasthampatti, Ammapet, Kondalampatti, Arisipalayam, Appuchetti Street and Kitchipalayam. The four mobile tax collection vehicles will be sent to all the parts in the city to speed up the tax collection.

The civic body had also decided to give importance for collecting tax arrears pending for long. Officials were asked to take door-to-door exercise to improve the tax collection.

Inspecting the tax collection exercise here on Wednesday, Corporation Commissioner K.S. Palasanisamy appealed to the people in the city to pay the taxes without fail. The civic body required more funds to finance its development projects including the dedicated drinking water supply scheme, he said.

People could approach any of the tax collection centres to clear their doubts regarding the taxes.