Property tax: 90K get no-dues certificate in Chandigarh

Sandeep Rana
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 18

The property tax branch of the MC has issued no-dues certificate to 90,000 property tax payers in the city.

The MC has planned to issue the certificate to 97,000 taxpayers. “A total of 90,000 slips have already been issued,” said MC Additional Commissioner Anil Kumar Garg.

The practice was started last year after many discrepancies were found in property tax records. Several people, who had paid the tax, were still getting bills. Some of them, who had already paid, did not have old payment slips. At that time, even the corporation did not have old records. Thus, it caused harassment to residents.

This had become a big issue and was raised in the MC House as well following which the corporation set its own house in order after most taxpayers cleared their dues.

To allay fears of the residents that they will not get the old bills again, the civic body decided to issue them computer-generated clearance certificate. It is being sent to all through post. “Now, our all property tax records are maintained on the computer. With a click of a mouse, even taxpayers can get the payment details of previous years,” shared an official.

The total number of residential and commercial tax payers in the city is 1.06 lakh. Other 41,000 property owners are either fully or partially exempted from paying the levy. The civic body has earned a revenue of Rs57 crore in the form of property tax in the current fiscal.