As the Chandigarh administration has imposed property tax on commercial properties in 13 villages, the tax branch of the municipal corporation has calculated approximately Rs 40 lakh that they will incur from these 13 villages annually.
Since the property tax has been imposed for the first time in these villages, on the lines of the power and water bills, the tax branch of the MC is all set to send bills individually to all the tax holders and ensure 100% compliance of the same.
“Since the imposed commercial property tax will be effective from the coming financial year starting from April 1, 2020, we have time to intimate people in this regard. Therefore, we have decided to send property tax related bills so that the property holders concerned can get information in this regard. Earlier, the idea to send the notice was also there, but most of the people don’t get intimation through notices, thus we have decided to use the time to send individual bills,” said an official of the MC.
Since the municipal corporation has already done a detailed survey of each villages, they have identified 3,138 commercial properties in these 13 villages. Out of these properties, Daria village has recorded optimum commercial properties.
Significantly, all these 13 villages were transferred to the municipal corporation in October 2018 and since then the offices of the MC were trying to convince the general house the need of imposing to tax, but the member of the house outrightly rejected the matter, without listening the financial constraints.