North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC) has collected approx Rs 645 crore as property tax this financial year. The amount is approx 100 crore more than that collected last year.
Mayor of North Delhi Jai Prakash on Thursday said that the corporation has collected almost 645 crore rupees which is almost 100 crore more than the last year's figure of Rs 548 crore.
“Due to efforts taken by the civic body, the number of taxpayers has also been increased by 5000 as 4, 23,000 taxpayers paid tax in comparison to 4,18,000 taxpayers last year,” he said.
The mayor also informed that about 48000 taxpayers availed the benefit of the amnesty scheme which was launched on January 27, 2021 by the north Corporation.
A total of about Rs 230 crore has been collected in the scheme. The amount deposited by taxpayers who availed the benefit of the scheme may be Rs 230 crore but the relief extended to the taxpayers in form of waiver of interest and penalty who came in line of paying property tax is not less than 500 crore rupees.
Jai Prakash also thanked the efforts of the Municipal Commissioner Sanjay Goel and his team of property tax department for achieving the milestone.