The Hindu 14.02.2013
More trades under property tax net
In an effort aimed at increasing revenue the Coimbatore Corporation
has widened its tax net. The move comes months ahead of the civic body’s
Budget for 2013-14.
The resolution the Corporation Council passed
on January 31 says that the Corporation has since April 1, 2000 166
trades under the Dangerous and Offensive Trade License, as per
Resolution 325 of March 27, 2000.
Under the very resolution, the civic body has removed the entry against serial number 3, which is arrack production.
To the 166 trades the Corporation has decided to add 58 more.
This
is based on recommendations from the Health Committee, which passed a
resolution on May 30, 2012, and the Finance and Taxation Committee,
which recommended the same through a resolution passed on August 13,
2012.
The Council has said that the Corporation will start collecting the D&O Trade License fee April 1, 2013 onwards.
Commissioner
in-charge S. Sivarasu said that the civic body will start issuing
demand notices to the practitioners of the 58 trades, based on which
they will have to pay the licence fee to the civic body.
Categories
The
58 trades the Corporation has brought under the license net are
computer and computer spares sales centres, browsing centres,
two-wheeler and four-wheeler parking spaces, footwear shops, fruits,
fruit juices and cool drinks sales centres, duty-paid shops, department
stores, coffee and tea powder outlets, mobile phone sales and service
centres, utensils shops tiles, shops selling marbles, granite and other
ceramic products, electrical wires and pipe sales centres, electrical
outlets selling television boxes, iron and other goods, two-wheeler and
four-wheeler showrooms, used vehicles sales centres, ice cream outlets,
packaged mineral water outlets, paint shops, canteens in cinemas, shops
selling plastics and toys made of plastics, sports goods shops, shops
selling gym equipment, gyms, catering centres, coconut wholesale and
retail outlets, flower shops, photocopying centres, private bars, TASMAC
bars and plywood showrooms.
The civic body has also included shops selling
puja
items, hardware shops, electric motor and spares, fancy lights, wedding
halls, furniture, iron rods used in construction, photo centres,
spectacles, bicycles, wedding card houses, stationery shops, medical
accessories, beauty products, sewing machines, button houses, travel
tickets, travel agencies, pharmacies, pesticides, wrist watches,
plastics and nylon products – retail and wholesale.
It has also added a few more to the list.