NASHIK: The property tax department of the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has brought 22,000 new properties across the city under the property tax net.
The property tax is levied on the establishments from the current financial year.
Owners of these properties must pay the tax either from the past two years or the year that construction started for their properties. Hence, the civic body will get an additional Rs 20 crore revenue through these new properties.
NMC officials said, “The new properties will help increase the property tax revenue of the civic body by an additional Rs 10-12 crore annually. With newer properties, the total number of properties across the city has increaseed to over 5.5 lakh.”
The civic body conducted a survey three years ago through a private agency, where they found 59,000 new establishments being used without occupancy certificates (OCs) from the NMC’s town planning department.
NMC conducted hearings of the owners for all these properties and brought most of the establishments under the tax net during last three years. Some of the few remaining properties were levied this year.
Apart from the survey, citizens who construct new buildings in the city also approach the NMC to get the property tax levied on them.
“We also give orders to our officers in all six divisions of the municipal corporation to keep an eye on the new properties in the city and levy property tax on them,” said NMC officials.
The civic body has deployed three agencies to distribute property tax bills to the taxpayers and also conduct a similar survey to find out the new properties.
“The agency will also ensure whether the residential properties are being utilised for commercial purposes without ‘change in use’ permission from the civic body. The property tax is to be recovered from these properties as per the commercial rates of the property tax, which is more than the residential rate of property tax, said the NMC officials.
They also added that a work order has already been issued to these agencies which are expected to start the work in the next few days, said NMC officials.
Meanwhile, the NMC administration has set the property tax collection target of Rs 250 crore for the current financial year. So far, the civic body collected property tax of Rs 188 crore.
Presently, the civic body has total 5.45 lakh properties in the city, including maximum 1.33 lakh properties in New Nashik division, 1.29 lakh properties in Panchavati division and 90,000 properties in Nashik East divisions. The remaining properties are located in other three divisions of NMC- Nashik East, Nashik Road and Satpurdivisions.
Source Homevior.in
