Pay property tax by May 31, get rebate in Chandigarh

Chandigarh, March 27

The Municipal Corporation has offered a rebate to the property tax payers depositing the levy for the fiscal 2021-22 by May 31.

As per the practice, the residential property taxpayers will get a rebate of 20 per cent and commercial property taxpayers 10 per cent. After May 31, there will be a penalty of 25 per cent and 12 per cent interest on the tax dues.

1.06 lakh taxpayers

There are 1.06 lakh residential and commercial taxpayers in the city. About 41,000 property owners are either fully or partially exempted from paying the tax. In the current fiscal, the MC has recovered about Rs57 crore as property tax.

"Last year, we had extended the deadline for paying the tax due to the Covid-induced lockdown. This time, there are no such plans," said a senior MC officer. Those failing to pay the tax will be served a notice. If the tax is still not paid, the MC has provisions to even snap the water connection in the case of residential unit and attach the property in the case of commercial unit.

The tax can be paid online on the MC's website or I'm Chandigarh mobile application. It can also be deposited at any Sampark centre in the city.

Quantum of rebate

As per the practice, the residential property taxpayers will get a rebate of 20 per cent and commercial property taxpayers 10 per cent. After May 31, there will be a penalty of 25 per cent and 12 per cent interest on the tax dues.

In the current fiscal, the MC has recovered a property tax of about Rs57 crore. It has also sent property clearance certificate to about 90,000 taxpayers so far this fiscal.

An MC official said they had identified a total of 97,000 applicants, who would be given the no dues certificate. The certificate was sent to the taxpayer by post, the official added. The practice was started last year after many discrepancies were found in the property tax records. Several people, who had paid the tax, were still getting notices. Some of them, who had already paid, did not have old payment slips. At that time, even the corporation did not have the old records, causing harassment to the taxpayers. — TNS

from The Tribune https://ift.tt/3u5ErAF