After about three months, the property tax collection will resume in Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) from today. To avoid the risk of Covid-19 contagion, the tax section of the corporation will operate in Town Hall. On the directions of Dehradun municipal commissioner Vinay Shankar Pandey, the seats in the Town Hall have been marked with numbers to maintain proper distance among the taxpayers and MCD officials. Pandey informed that only 25 tokens will be issued to taxpayers every day so that basic guidelines like social distancing, use of masks and sanitisers can be ensured. He also added that no one would be allowed to enter the MCD premises without mask.
As informed earlier by tax superintendent Vinay Pratap Singh, tokens will be provided to only those taxpayers who will arrive between 10 AM and 11:30 AM on working days. Though only 25 people will be allowed to submit the tax in a day, additional tokens will be issued to the remaining people for the next day, said Singh.
Pandey also appealed people to deposit their property taxes online safely from their homes amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Considering the current scenario, if any taxpayer is incapable of depositing residential tax online or visit MCD campus due to some reason, they can contact the officials to provide the facility at their homes and the tax inspectors will facilitate the process of tax submission, informed deputy municipal commissioner Rohitash Sharma.
Moreover, those who could not submit the property tax of the year 2019-2020 by March can submit it with 20 per cent rebate till June 22. If the period of the rebate is not extended after this date, the remaining taxpayers will have to submit the tax with a penalty. It is also pertinent to mention here that a taxpayer will have to deposit the tax of the current as well as the last financial year if they have not submitted it already by March. However, the rebate is applicable to the taxpayers of both years. Furthermore, the MCD has not issued a fixed last date till now for the submission of the property tax of the year 2020-2021 with 20 per cent rebate.