Andhra government imposed ₹1,000-crore house tax burden on urban residents: CPI(M)

CPI(M) State secretariat member Ch. Babu Rao on Thursday alleged that the Andhra Pradesh government had imposed an additional house-tax burden of nearly ₹1,000 crore on urban residents and was continuing the property-value-based taxation system introduced by the previous YSRCP government.

Addressing the media at the party office, Mr. Babu Rao, along with party district secretariat member B. Satya Babu, alleged that the government had reneged on its election promise to review the property-tax system.

He claimed that the capital-value-based property tax had resulted in house taxes increasing by at least 15.% every year. He alleged that the cumulative increase over six years had reached 131.% The coalition government had further increased the burden by 30% this year, he said.