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The BMC will give the past probability to property tax defaulters, whose attributes were hooked up last yr, to shell out the dues in just 15 times from receiving see, failing which their belongings will be auctioned. The civic body has connected far more than 11,000 attributes which include open up plots, industrial and household areas as perfectly as valuable equipment tools and one helicopter. House tax is a main supply of cash flow for the BMC. Previous year the civic system gathered Rs 3,735.05 crore against its estimate of Rs 5,016.19 crore earnings from property tax.
Officers from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Assessment and Collection Department said that the defaulters owe a whopping Rs 15,000 crore and that the civic human body has attached a total of 11,661 qualities last calendar year, like 5,821 open up plots, properties, business and residential sites. An official extra that the approach to auction these homes have been taken up last year thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, but it will get started right after the close of this economic 12 months.
Elaborating on the approach, Sunil Dhamne, joint commissioner of the Assessment and Assortment Section, claimed, “We will get started the auction following April 2022. Firstly, we will appoint a valuer to repair the price of the residence. Just after the valuer fixes the expense, BMC will send out a closing see to the defaulter to pay out inside 15 times. If the defaulter pays his dues, we will halt the auction. But if they are unsuccessful, BMC will auction the home.”
This year’s assortment
The civic human body challenges expenses for a individual monetary calendar year in May well when the deadline for paying out 50 for every cent of the tax is August and the remaining is to be paid in December. For this economical calendar year, BMC has recovered Rs 5,030 crore assets tax with dues, as against R6,000 crore. “We will attain the target by March-conclude,” claimed Dhamne.
11,661
No. of qualities hooked up very last 12 months