Due to the conditions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) has started to receive about 50 per cent of property tax online which was hardly ten per cent in the last financial year. Moreover, the corporation has collected property tax of about Rs 12 crore since April as per the officials. Informing about it, the municipal tax superintendent Poonam Rawat said that the tax collection was slow for some time but it is now back on track. The property tax payments through online mode have increased in MCD this year which mostly includes residential property taxpayers and those who live outside the city, said Rawat. However, she informed that the non-residential taxpayers mostly prefer to deposit property tax physically in the MCD campus as their tax amount is mostly high.
On the question of whether the corporation will organise any property tax camps in any wards, Rawat said that MCD recently organised a one-day property tax camp and will organise in other areas too if they receive any requests from the councillors. So far, the corporation has collected Rs 12 crore about half of this amount was collected online and if necessary in future, MCD might organise camps but it does not seem necessary at present, added Rawat.
Monday, 23 November 2020 | PNS | Dehradun
