Publish Date: | Sat, 26 Feb 2022 02:46 PM (IST)
Bilaspur.Bilaspur Nagar Nigam News: The Municipal Corporation administration has intensified the process of recovering the outstanding building tax. The date for depositing building tax without fee has been fixed till March 31. Thereafter a penalty of 15% will be levied. This will be applicable in Jalkar also. The corporation has to recover building fee of Rs 71 crore this year. In this, contract company Expero has to recover Rs 57 crore from the urban area.
Apart from this, the Municipal Corporation has to collect tax of 14 crores in rural areas. But this year only 40 percent has been recovered. Which is around Rs 30 crores. It is clear that the corporation is lagging behind in recovery. The taxpayers have been given time till March 31 to expedite the collection of building tax. If during this time, along with the building tax, other taxes related to the corporation are paid, then no surcharge will be levied. But from April 1, a surcharge of 15 percent will be levied.
Target of recovery of tax from big defaulters also
The Municipal Commissioner has made it clear that such defaulters who are not paying the building tax for years. Recovery should be made by making a list of them, so that tax collection can be speeded up. He has given the facility of paying tax from the big arrears without any fee till March 31. It is known that due to lagging behind in various types of recovery, the treasury of the corporation has become empty. This is also causing problems in the functioning of the corporation.
Recovery according to the target is not being done for years
It is not that the corporation is lagging behind in tax collection only this year. The situation has remained like this for the past several years. Every year only 40 to 50 percent of the recovery is being done. This has emptied the treasury of the corporation. Now employees also have to face difficulties to pay salaries.
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