Muzaffarpur: Demand for property tax has quadrupled, aiming to collect crores every month

With the ongoing survey of government and private buildings by the Municipal Corporation and Smart City in Muzaffarpur urban area, the demand for property tax has quadrupled. The speed with which property tax evasion is detected. If this pace continues, the demand will reach Rs 90-100 crore in the next few months. So far, out of the total 49 wards, 32 wards have been surveyed and the property tax collection requirement of the corporation has reached Rs 67.53 crore. Accordingly, recovery has also increased. Also Read.. Shravani Mela: Drop gate and barricades will be set up to manage the crowd, will be monitored from the control room from the current financial year 2024-25, about nine crore rupees have been recovered from government and private properties (buildings). ) built in urban areas. In this, an additional discount of 05 percent has been given for depositing Municipal Corporation Tax of the current financial year. Along with property tax, user charges for water and sanitation are also collected. The Corporation has informed that there are 53642 private properties in the urban area and a demand has been made to recover Rs.40.42 crore from them. In proportion to this, approximately Rs 9.25 crore has been collected in April, May and June of the current financial year. Apart from this there are 500 government properties. 27.10 crore is required to recover from this. In proportion to this, the Corporation has recovered 25 lakhs. Also read… Municipal commissioner has said that no more money can be spent on drinking water project in the city, if the property is deposited, a penalty of one and a half per cent per month will be imposed. That is, if the Corporation does not grant exemption, no one will collect the penalty amount. At the same time, if the property tax is deposited from October 1, the corporation will collect the total amount from April of the current financial year along with a penalty of one and a half percent. Recovery of Rs.45 lakhs from trade license: During the current financial year, Rs.45 lakhs have been recovered from trade licences. Whereas, the requirement is Rs.1.93 crore. In this, the corporation has recovered money worth 43 lakh rupees. At the same time, Rs.2 lakh has been recovered online. Businessmen, shopkeepers, banks, offices etc. of the city have to get trade license. For this, the Corporation has fixed three tiers. The minimum amount for small shopkeepers is fixed at Rs.1000. Apart from this, a slab of Rs.2000 and Rs.2500 has been fixed. The post Muzaffarpur: Demand for property tax has quadrupled, target to collect crores every month appeared first on Prabhat Khabar.