To bring transparency in its functioning, the Haryana Urban local Bodies Department has made all the preparations to soon introduce online facility for paying property tax. Urban Bodies Minister Kavita Jain on Monday said that urban local bodies were being strengthened and their functioning were being made more transparent.
She said that under the ambitious project ‘Digital India’, the Urban local Bodies Department would soon provide lakhs of people with the facility of filling property tax online. For this purpose, the digitalization of information of property owners and their related details has been initiated in Municipal Corporations. This data would be soon made online to provide relief to the general public from the trouble of standing in long queues for getting their property tax deposited.
Giving details about the collection of property tax, Jain said that each property falling under urban local bodies’ institutions would be issued with unique identification number through which online complete information could be drawn from anywhere. The citizens would be able to calculate the property tax with the facility of online calculator.
She said that the citizens would also be able to search, view their property details and assessed property tax by the department and would be able to pay their tax online.
Apart from this, the citizens would be at the liberty to use the tool of self assessment and would be accordingly able to pay their tax online. The service would be integrated with payment gateway and citizens would be having an option of part payment also. They would be able to view the arrears of tax online with the help of their unique identification number.