In a bid to mobilise resources, the Mysuru City Corporation has resolved to collect property tax from tenants of shops. It also decided to give trade licences or renew them only after the tenants pay the property tax for the shops where they are carrying out the business.
This is to ensure that the MCC achieves the target in both property tax and trade licence fee collection.
Tenants have to pay property tax for the portion of the building they have hired, if the owners failed to pay the building tax. The MCC will issue trade licences only after ascertaining that the property tax has been paid either by the owner of the building or tenant of the shop. If the tenant fails to pay the tax, his trade licence will not be renewed, and a criminal case be booked against him for not obtaining trade licence.
A decision on this was taken at the MCC council meeting held on Tuesday. The decision will take effect soon.
Non-KAS officials
The issue of posting of non-KAS or KMS officials for the Assistant Commissioners posts of the nine zonal offices of MCC, figured at the meet.
Taking objection to posting Assistant Executive Officers for the posts, R. Ravindra Kumar and a few other councillors asked how could the AEEs carry out the works and responsibilities of KAS and KMS cadre officers?
Mr. Jagadeesha, Commissioner, MCC, said it was the decision of the government to post AEEs in the absence of KAS and KMS officials. The councillors asked how could AEEs, who have technical knowledge, discharge administrative functions, and insisted the commissioner write to the government to post only KAS or KMS officials. Earlier, Mr. Prashanth Gowda, and a few other councillors took strong objection to holding the MCC meeting at 3 p.m., and they said many vital issues could not be discussed threadbare in two or three hours, and decisions could not be taken.
About 45 minutes was wasted on discussion over the timings of the meeting and the councillors urged the mayor to hold the council meeting in the morning hereafter.
