Monday, 04 MARCH 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) is gearing up to achieve the target of collecting over Rs 60 crore property tax by March 31. There are over 400 defaulters of non- residential property tax owners including 10 government departments. The budget of most of these departments has been sanctioned and they will submit the tax soon. The corporation has also started sending bills and notices to the defaulters, the municipal tax superintendent Dharmesh Painuly said. He informed that the corporation is doing extremely well in terms of property tax collection this time than in the past financial years. In the first month of this financial year, MCD collected Rs 15 crore which had never happened before. The corporation had collected over Rs 40 crore by December. The MCD collected property tax of Rs 4.5 crore in February alone. The tax section even bought a new notes counting machine last week due to increasing tax submissions. Painuly said that the property tax collection saw a dip in financial years 2020-21 and 2021-22 due to the Covid-19 pandemic but it increased during the last financial year. The MCD collected over Rs 52 crore in 2022-23 against Rs 38 crore in 2021-22. He said that there are over 1.25 lakh property taxpayers registered with MCD that include about 20,000 non- residential property taxpayers. He said, “We have a target of collecting over Rs 60 crore this financial year and observing the hike in the number of taxpayers, we will certainly achieve it.” He also informed that the MCD collected Rs 4.5 crore as property tax in 2014 and now, it will be collecting over Rs 60 crore in 2024. This growth is tremendous and it will continue further in the coming years too, he added.
