About Rs 15 lakh to Rs 20 lakh are being deposited per day in the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) by citizens depositing property tax. The MCD tax superintendent Dharmesh Painuly said that the arrival of property taxpayers has dropped following extension of the period for the rebate on the property tax by one month.
While talking to The Pioneer, Dharmesh Painuly said, "The collection of property tax keeps fluctuating regularly. Sometimes it's rupees 30 lakh in a day and sometimes it's just 12 lakh but on an average, the collection remains around 15 to 20 lakh per day."
He further added that people generally deposit tax during the proximity of the last date for the granted rebate.
Since the rebate on the residential tax has been extended till February 15, most of the people will deposit the tax near or on this date.
According to Deputy Municipal Commissioner Rohitash Sharma, various factors have an effect on the submission of the tax on day to day basis like weather, change in traffic plan, and protesting traders.
Informing about the online process for new taxpayers Painuly said, “For the first time registration of non-residential properties, a taxpayer would have to fill the form and submit the documents personally in MCD but after getting the bill through the counter, the tax can be paid online as well as offline."
However according to Rohitash Sharma even though the facility of submitting tax is provided online, people still prefer to submit the tax in MCD by getting in the line rather than the comfort of their home.
when asked about the people complaining that the online site is showing wrong figures of taxes, Painuly said, " It is in the case of hardly one or two per cent people as the rate of taxes have been revised and moreover some people did not fill the right and mandatory details of their property, so sometimes our system is showing the different amount.
Therefore, if somebody finds the tax amount shown on the website wrong, it can be corrected in any of the counter here after they mention all the mandatory details." Regarding the commercial tax, Painuly said that so far the amount of rupees 18 crore has been collected by MCD and since the last date of the rebate on commercial tax is January 31, people will submit it in the last few days. About extending the period for the rebate in the commercial tax he said that no decision has been taken for now by MCD.
It is pertinent to mention here that the last date of submission of property tax with a rebate of 20 per cent was extended by Dehradun mayor Sunil Uniyal 'Gama' from January 15 to February 15. Besides, the rebate of 20 per cent is also given to commercial taxpayers whereas five per cent additional rebate is set for the taxpayers of the new wards.
