The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) will send notices after March to all those would fail to deposit their property tax for the current financial year.
Informing this, the municipal commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey stated that the corporation will start making a list of those property owners who will not pay their property tax by March. After that, the corporation will send notices to the owners to deposit the property tax within the given time period. Subsequently, the corporation will impose penalties on those who would fail to do so as per the MCD rules, informed Pandey. According to the officials, around 25,000 property owners have deposited the property tax so far through online and offline mode and till now, the corporation has collected about Rs 25 crore. The municipal tax superintendent Poonam Rawat stated that last year over 50,000 property taxpayers deposited the property tax but many still could not deposit it due to Covid-19 induced lockdown since March 15.
Moreover, she informed that some counsellors have also requested the corporation to set up property tax camps in their respective wards to facilitate tax submission for the local residents considering which, MCD will organise tax camps soon. Meanwhile, some property taxpayers recently complained that the online website of MCD for property tax submission is not working due to which they had to visit the corporation to deposit the tax. Responding to this, the officials informed that the said website is under maintenance and will get activated soon. However, they added that the corporation has increased the number of counters and even set up a waiting place for taxpayers on the campus. If someone is incapable to visit the premises physically like senior citizens, they can contact MCD and a team from tax section will visit them to facilitate the tax submission in their homes, informed officials.
Monday, 25 January 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
