The Times of India 23.04.2013
LMC mulls pvt agency for house tax assessment
Nigam is considering handing over the task of house assessment to a
private agency to improve the efficiency and transparency of the
process.
This would be on the pattern of Delhi’s municipal
corporation. The corporation has got a proposal from an agency which
would take 8% of the user collection charges from LMC.
LMC sets
a target to collect around Rs 150- 300 crore as house tax annually.
This year, it could achieve only around Rs 100 crore. The private agency
claims it would scale up the house tax amount up to Rs 200 crore every
year.
It was felt that during the assessment, many residential
and commercial structures were left out from the tax net because of
manpower shortage in LMC.
As a result, LMC is considering to
hand over the assessment of house tax, which is a major source of
revenue, to a private party to increase the collection amount.
