BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday slapped Red letter realize (ultimate caution) on 284 persons, together with homeowners of homes, firms and institutions for failing to pay maintaining tax. The civic body has given them March 31 cut-off date to pay the tax or else it is going to invoke Odisha Public Demand Recovery (OPDR) Act, 1972, to institute cases in opposition to the defaulting individuals to recuperate the amount by way of confiscating their houses.
Holding tax is a very powerful income element, which is gathered from folks on the basis of the plinth area of the home, shops, commercial establishments, tutorial institutions. People find a way to pay the tax online or immediately at the BMC counter. In the remaining fiscal, it generated about Rs 35 crore.
Officials said Rs nine crore is due from the defaulters. "We have given March 31 cut-off date as it is the closing for the present fiscal. This 12 months till December end, the civic body had gathered Rs 14 crore maintaining tax, said BMC deputy commissioner Srimanta Mishra.
Out of the 284 persons, the absolute best Rs 2.52 crore is pending in opposition to Apex Engineering College, Pahala. "We will take stringent action in opposition to the defaulters. Under OPDR Act, if a case is instituted in opposition to a person by way of the an officer of the BMC, who is designated as certificates officer, property (movable and immovable) in proportion to the pending quantity may also be confiscated," said Mishra. The certificates officer can also attach the checking account of the person, he added.
In January 2017, the civic body bought a special permission from the income divisional commissioner (central department) to designate three of its deputy commissioners as certificates officials, who will probably be empowered to take the action in opposition to the tax evaders beneath OPDR Act.
The Act also empowers the officer to recuperate the dues and price compound pastime at the rate of 12% on the dues, officials said. The town has at present multiple lakh holdings. The urban body also made up our minds to hunt assist of Orissa Space Applications Centre (ORSAC) for digitization of all the holdings within the town. The ORSAC data will probably be corroborated with one ones discovered all through floor survey and then a final list of folks coming beneath tax net will probably be prepared, said the officer.
Holding tax is a very powerful income element, which is gathered from folks on the basis of the plinth area of the home, shops, commercial establishments, tutorial institutions. People find a way to pay the tax online or immediately at the BMC counter. In the remaining fiscal, it generated about Rs 35 crore.
Officials said Rs nine crore is due from the defaulters. "We have given March 31 cut-off date as it is the closing for the present fiscal. This 12 months till December end, the civic body had gathered Rs 14 crore maintaining tax, said BMC deputy commissioner Srimanta Mishra.
Out of the 284 persons, the absolute best Rs 2.52 crore is pending in opposition to Apex Engineering College, Pahala. "We will take stringent action in opposition to the defaulters. Under OPDR Act, if a case is instituted in opposition to a person by way of the an officer of the BMC, who is designated as certificates officer, property (movable and immovable) in proportion to the pending quantity may also be confiscated," said Mishra. The certificates officer can also attach the checking account of the person, he added.
In January 2017, the civic body bought a special permission from the income divisional commissioner (central department) to designate three of its deputy commissioners as certificates officials, who will probably be empowered to take the action in opposition to the tax evaders beneath OPDR Act.
The Act also empowers the officer to recuperate the dues and price compound pastime at the rate of 12% on the dues, officials said. The town has at present multiple lakh holdings. The urban body also made up our minds to hunt assist of Orissa Space Applications Centre (ORSAC) for digitization of all the holdings within the town. The ORSAC data will probably be corroborated with one ones discovered all through floor survey and then a final list of folks coming beneath tax net will probably be prepared, said the officer.
Civic body to crack down on holding tax defaulters
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