MCG Says It's Falling Short Of Property Tax Target - GurgaonScoop

Source: Times Of India ?Publish: 10-October-2012

In all probability the municipal corporation will fall way short of it?property taxtarget it has set for itself this current financial year. While on the one hand it wants to collect Rs 500 crore this year, even after six months it has barely managed to collect only around Rs 50 crore, and officials admit that it is indeed very difficult to collect the rest Rs 450 crore in half a year. All the four zonal taxation officers (each for one municipal zone) have been given a target to collect Rs 10 crore as property tax every month, said?MCG?officials. They, however, say that these ZTO's have miserably failed to do their job. "The ZTOs have not been able to achieve the target despite being told repeatedly to do so. They say people are not coming forward to pay the property tax. The other common reason quoted for the dismal collection is discrepancies in the property tax assessment. Those residents who have raised objections regarding the assessment have said they will not pay the tax till the time their issues are fully resolved. "We are trying to resolve their objections at the earliest, however, the objections are so many (over 50,000) and it takes time to resolve them," said a finance department official. New Gurgaon residents' reluctance to pay tax either to MCG or the private builders can also be cited as another reason behind low rate of tax collection. "We have made ourselves clear that we will pay tax to those who will provide us basic services like water, sewage and roads. And since now the private developer is providing us these amenities. The day the MCG provides us these basic requirements we would start paying tax. But we will not allow MCG to fleece us," said Rajat Verma, a DLF phase-III resident.

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