Kolai: As the work of dividing the streets of Coimbatore into ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ zone wise is not yet possible, the Corporation has suspended the applications for levying property tax on new buildings. As followed by other Corporations and Municipalities in Tamil Nadu, buses will ply. On the basis of the classification of road, main road and other streets, the Coimbatore Corporation in 2018, in the last ADMK regime, divided the zone into ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’ and ‘D’ and set the property tax. Decided and passed the resolution. But not implemented. Boundaries were redefined and local elections were held for newly created 100 wards. Accordingly, on the basis of streets in each ward, the taxpayers have been changed. The process of identifying the zones under which these levies fall is underway. In this context, 233 streets are listed as missing.
Corporation officials said: The practice of levying property tax by zone is only applicable to new buildings. We are preparing a list of the streets where the old taxpayers live and in which zone they fall. After that, objections will be sought from the public. The comments of the public will be submitted to the forum and the resolution will be passed. After that, it will be gazetted and brought into force. Due to this, applications are not received for assessment of property tax on new buildings. have been temporarily suspended. Property tax collection has been expedited as the property tax revision work has been completed recently. Apart from this, vacancy tax, business tax is collected and the name is changed. Thus, they said.
40 wards have a lot of balance!
Hundreds of new buildings have come up in 40 wards attached to the Coimbatore Corporation. A large number of people are raiding the corporation zonal offices to tax them. The revenue department returns the application without receiving it citing tax revision. Accelerating street-wise zoning and levying new taxes will generate crores of revenue for the corporation.
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