PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has formed a special recovery team to implement the amnesty scheme for property tax defaulters.
As many as 61 people have been roped in to recover the tax from around 3.5 lakh properties. According to the scheme, the property tax defaulters have been given waiver of around 80% of the penalty. They will have to pay the tax and 20% penalty.
The PMC has to recover property tax dues of around Rs4,500 crore, out of which around Rs2,500 crore was penalty, while around Rs2,100 crore were actual tax dues.
“The team will follow up on the pending tax. They will carry out visits to the defaulters’ homes. The notices have been issued to them,” a senior PMC official said.
He said at present, some of these civic officials were working on Covid-19 duties. They would now be reassigned the task of tax collection.
“The civic body has decided to keep a cap on the recovery amount for the property tax. The waiver will be given to all the properties below Rs50 lakh to make sure those property owners in need were given benefit of this scheme. Mostly residential property would be benefited,” Hemant Rasane, chairman of the standing committee, said.
As per the civic data, around 10.5 lakh properties were liable for tax in PMC’s jurisdiction. They include residential as well as commercial properties. Even open plots and government properties were liable for the tax.
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