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MCT intensifies tax collection drive
The Municipal Corporation of Tirupati (MCT) intensified its drive to improve the tax collection including property, water supply and underground drainage charges from the property owners in the city
Tirupati: The Municipal Corporation of Tirupati (MCT) intensified its drive to improve the tax collection including property, water supply and underground drainage charges from the property owners in the city.
The corporation with a determined move to achieve 100 per cent tax collection is focusing on the collection of the property tax which is pending for long time. Accordingly, the MCT decided to disconnect the water supply to those who have defaulted on tax payment more than two years to force them to clear the dues immediately.
Sources in MCT said that the Revenue department had slapped notices for the disconnection of water supply to 50 buildings in various localities in the city so far while preparing to issue notices to some others, who have failed to clear tax dues.
Speaking to The Hans India, the MCT Revenue Officer (RO) N Sethum Madhava said that the Engineering and Water Supply wing personnel have started disconnection of drinking water supply to the buildings whose owners failed to clear the tax dues within a week, even after issuing notices for payment of property tax.
MCT Commissioner V Vinay Chand has formed special teams to speed up tax collection, RO said adding that the Revenue department has taken up the process for disconnection of water supply to those houses, based on the list prepared by the department. He claimed that tax collection has picked up after issuing of notices for disconnection of water supply.
The RO said that so far the MCT had collected Rs 24.07 crore against the total demand of Rs 32.54 crore for the year 2015-16, registering 74 per cent in the property tax collection, as on February 15.
“This was about Rs 5 crore more than last year during the same period (as on February 15) which was Rs 19.46 core,” he averred.
Plans are about to exceed last year 2014-15 tax collection percentage which is 95 per cent and even achieve cent per cent property tax collection before the end of the financial year i.e. March 31, 2016, he said indicating that there will be no letup in the aggressive drive.
