Municipal Corporations in Ludhiana are going to catch hold of property task defaulters property tax defaulters who either did not pay their tax or deposited a lesser amount. The civic officials have decided to do a survey to check the records of more than 3,000 properties in the city, including big factories, malls, and other commercial units. If municipal corporation teams find discrepancies in the payment of tax, defaulters will then have to pay up 100% penalty to the civic body.
Municipal Corporation picked up those 3,547 properties in the first phase from whom it was recovering around Rs 25,000 until 2012-13, before the imposition of property tax. Property tax was introduced in 2013-14, so officials will check records from 2013 to 2018 of these properties in all the four zones. They will make site visits and check whether owners of properties provided correct information about collector rate, total area of their property, and other information. In case they find foul play in any of the records, then there is provision of imposing 100% penalty on defaulters.
Officials in the property tax headquarters have requested zonal commissioners to frame block-wise teams in their zones to send them for checking records and getting the actual picture, to verify whether proper returns have been filed or not. Balkar Sandhu, the mayor of Ludhiana, has also given clear instructions to municipal corporation staff that if they wanted their salaries in time, they should bring pending recoveries from the public.
Courtesy/By: Simren Mehra
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11 May 2018
