The number of people submitting the property tax online to the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) is negligible during the second phase of lockdown period. According to officials, locals have almost stopped depositing the tax this month.
Last month, the MCD tax superintendent Dharmesh Painuly informed that in the initial days of the lockdown, online submission of property tax had increased by 10 per cent. However, in the recent past, only one or two people deposit the tax online on a daily basis. "The property tax collection now is almost negligible. Mostly only one or two taxpayers submit the tax per day and for the last few days that has stopped too. No one has submitted property tax after April 18," said Painuly.
This year the municipal corporation set the target of collecting the property tax of Rs 50 crore but so far, according to Painuly, the MCD has collected about Rs 43 crore. In spite of extending the period of rebate of 20 per cent over six times, hundreds of locals have still not submitted the property tax. According to sources, only around 50,000 people have submitted the property tax so far.
Meanwhile, the personnel of MCD tax section are also assisting the district administration in the community surveillance of 1800 people in Dehradun. According to Painuly, the team of 14 people has been helping administration for more than a week on the directions of district magistrate Ashish Kumar Shrivastava.