Delhi: MCD to Digitise Property Records
Following an internal survey wherein the Municipal Corporation of Delhi found that around half the property owners in the capital do not declare their properties as rented to save house taxes, it has decided to digitize the property records of Delhi with details of owners and whether it is rented to find those evading taxes. Moreover, digitizing the property tax filing system will be simplified and linked with Aadhaar numbers to increase collection. The MCD earns around Rs 2,000 crore from the property tax and hopes to double its tax resources by increasing its tax ambit. L-G Vinai Kumar Saxena had earlier advised that all properties within the city limits, commercial as well as residential, be brought under the tax net so that MCD’s incomes increase, and it provides better services. To bridge the gap in the tax collection system, the MCD has also fixed a target for the property tax department. The MCD has doubled the target and set it at Rs 3,850 crore from its present tax collection of around Rs 2,000 crore. A senior MCD official said this also means the corporation would be stricter in collecting its taxes and imposing penalties on defaulters.
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