The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday issued a red corner notice to 284 individuals or firms for defaulting an amount of Rs 9.1 crore tax.
If the defaulters are not paying the demand amount of holding tax in time by March 31, the BMC shall take action as per the Odisha Public Demands Recovery (OPDR) Act, 1962.
Certificate cases are filed against the defaulters of Government money under the OPDR Act. If a certificate case is filed against a person and he continues to ignore it, then stringent steps like attaching bank accounts and movable and immovable property could also be initiated till the defaulter pays the amount.
It can be mentioned here that holding tax collection up to the third quarter of the financial year till date is Rs 14.51 crore. As per the BMC notification, Rs 2,52,18, 856.00 has been defaulted by city-based Apex Engineering College, Pahala. The lowest belongs to one Rs 10,016 from a house of Ashok Bhagat and others at Rudrapur. Meanwhile, the civic body has taken up help of the Odisha Space Applications Centre (ORSAC) to digitise the holdings across the city and to double check with ground survey so that not a single holding is missed out from the tax net.