The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has decided to streamline the tax collection operations.

It
has invited request for proposal (RFP) for collection of property tax,
trade licence fee, advertisement tax, estate collection, profession tax,
etc, using hand-held computers (HHC). It plans to automate the services
and make it online and use of HHC will facilitate collections under
different services or heads by a single bill collector.

GHMC
officials told Express that firms should provide HHC with necessary
operating system and application software for all types of revenue
collections using a single device. One single device to be provided for
every docket (about 4,000 property assessments). The technical bids will
be opened on September 13 and commercial bids will be opened later.

At
present, GHMC is collecting property tax using HHC. All the five zones
have been divided into 334 dockets, each with 4,000 assessed properties
and one bill collector with HHC.

The GHMC has five zones, 18
circles, 150 wards and several localities in wards. It collects taxes,
fees, penalty from citizens under different heads. Each ward or
combination of wards will have an inspector and bill collector.

The
automation will consist of two stages. The first is the development of
an integrated application to be run on any model/make of HHC to issue
and collect  demand notices for property tax, trade licence,
advertisement tax, estate collection, profession tax etc. The developed
application will be owned by GHMC. The second stage includes operation
and execution of the project by providing the requisite number of HHCs
along with qualified operators for about three years.

 HHC will
get the area citizen master data with tax details. The in-charge chooses
service for which a transaction will be carried out and will be able to
generate memo, collect tax/penalty and manage survey/new registration.

The
firms have to equip the HHC with necessary operating system and
application software for revenue collections using a single device. A
single device will be provided for a docket.