MCD to sent notices to owners of vacant houses & flats for pending property tax

Saturday, 03 October 2020 | PNS | Dehradun

The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) will soon issue notices to the owners of the vacant residential properties who have not deposited the property tax till now in the corporation. According to the official sources, there are about 1,000 residential properties including houses and apartments in the city which are unoccupied for many years as per the corporation’s data. Most of the owners and builders of these properties have not deposited the property tax for years. Therefore, the corporation will send them the notices and will recover the property tax from the year 2014 to the current financial year along with the penalty charges, informed MCD officials. The corporation is going through a financial crisis this year as many major sources of income like the collection of property tax are not going well due to recurring covid patients in the premises since the last two months. According to the officials, MCD can collect a considerable amount of money from the property tax of about 1,000 houses and flats which can fall between Rs 80 lakh to Rs one crore. The corporation will possibly send notices to owners of such buildings by the end of this month or in November, informed officials.