GHMC Commissioner M. Dana Kishore informed that the corporation will begin to conduct ‘Revenue Adalats’ every month, to address various issues citizens are facing in the payment of property tax.
As of now, only year-end meetings are being conducted to resolve the issues encountered in payment of property tax, which leaves the payers no recourse throughout the year with regard to their grievances.
Property tax assessment is presently done by the bill collectors and tax inspectors, and a number of grievances point to how the tax is raised arbitrarily citing anomalies in previous assessments.
Though the government has not hiked the property tax rate for a few years, citizens are forced to shell out more owing to the arbitrarily served bills. Those visiting the circle offices with the complaints are directed to the zonal offices for grievance redress, from where they are redirected to the headquarters, with not much success.
Not clearing mutations in time is one more issue hindering payment of property tax, which makes the owners do repeated rounds of the headquarters.
About ₹100 crore of property tax payments are pending in this year alone owing to these hitches, officials inform. For a property tax target of ₹1,500 crore, the corporation could collect ₹1,036 crore so far.
Mr.Dana Kishore has issued directions to the Additional Commissioner (Revenue) Advait Kumar Singh on Tuesday towards monthly Revenue Adalats to resolve the issues.
