Wednesday 21 August 2013

MCD waives penalty, interest to recover property tax dues

New Delhi: With MCD house levy worth crores of rupees due against diverse government and personal organisations, the civic body has now suggested immunity till November 30, waiving penalty and interest on payments under a new settlement design to benefit thousands of inhabitants.

"The long-awaited design of resolving house tax arrears with immunity of penalty and waiver of interest has started from August 19 and the design will extend till November 30 this year," head person of the high-powered house levy committee, North Delhi Municipal company, Rajesh Bhatia said.

He said house tax worth crores of rupees is due against various government and personal organisations and the department is making efforts to collect it

The head person said that necessary main headings have been handed out to all property levy agencies for productive implementation of this scheme and advertisements have been published in all foremost bulletins to inform property proprietors about the identical.

"This design will advantage four kinds of property proprietors ? ex-parte evaluation under old rateable worth system; rateable worth currently determined on deserve; unit area procedure and those whose situations are pending in enclosures and are willing to determination them out of court," North Delhi company public relatives agent Yogendra Singh Mann said.

Bhatia furthermore informed that under this scheme, property tax will be acknowledged only through pay-order or demand preliminary. Besides, if any house owner feels that his case is being pulled on purpose or is being harassed, accusation can be made exactly to him, he said.

He said "a house tax town design has been brought for the first time for Unit locality scheme situations after its implementation in 2004. Pending property levy under unit area system can furthermore be disposed off under this new scheme".

Mann said the design has been begun following a feedback from people.

"On the basis of the feedback obtained from people, it has been discovered out that house proprietors desire to pay their house levy but are not persuaded with the assessment instructions passed against their properties.

"Property proprietors furthermore accept as true that much higher allowance of levy is levied on their properties and therefore they choose not to pay the house tax," Mann said.

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