Property tax amounting to about Rs 35 lakh is being deposited per day in the Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD). There has also been a surge in the number of tax payers as the rebate on property tax is slated to end on February 15.
While talking to The Pioneer, the MCD tax superintendent Dharmesh Painuly said, “In recent days, the collection of property tax remains around Rs 35 lakh per day in which about Rs 15 lakh is from residential property tax and the remaining is from non-residential property tax.
Till now, MCD has collected Rs 35 crore from property tax payers and certainly the goal of collecting Rs 50 crore will be achieved by the end of the month of March. Last year only about Rs 25 crore were collected by MCD, but hopefully this time the collection will exceed Rs 50 crore.”
Painuly also informed that probably the date of the period of the rebate on the property tax will not be extended after February 15. A fine will be imposed on the property owners of Dehradun if they will not submit the tax before March 31.
The penalty of Rs 100, Rs 1000, and Rs 5000 will be imposed on the area of the property up to 50 square metres, 200 square metres and 400 square metres respectively. The penalty of Rs 15,000 will be imposed on the property of more than 400 square metres.
However, if the tax submission of the property is late by 30 days, five per cent of tax will be charged as penalty in the form of delay fee 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' by one month which is slated to end on February 15. Besides, the rebate of 20 per cent was also given to non-residential taxpayers whereas five per cent additional rebate was set for the taxpayers of the new wards which has ended on January 31 and was not extended further by MCD.