Tiruchi Corporation steps up tax collection drive
The Tiruchi Corporation is intensifying its tax collection drive to recover arrears, threatening penal actions like water supply disconnection for defaulters. The civic body is encouraging online payments and offering a 5% discount for early second half-yearly payments.
Why it matters
Effective municipal tax collection is critical for funding local public services and maintaining urban infrastructure.
Launching intensive measures to mop up tax arrears, Tiruchi Corporation has urged defaulters to remit their dues to avoid penal action.
Corporation Commissioner N. Ponmani, in a statement, said the civic body had so far mopped up 55.42% of current property tax demand and 18.11% of arrears, recording an overall collection of 46.88% of tax dues. The Corporation stood third among the urban civic bodies in the State in overall collection of tax and non-tax demands. In an attempt to achieve cent per cent collection, the list of property tax defaulters was published on the Corporation website. Following this, ₹3.15 crore in tax arrears was collected and the Corporation had initiated steps to collect the remaining dues too.
Apart from sensitising citizens on prompt payment of tax dues, penal action, including disconnection of water supply,was being initiated against long-time defaulters as per due procedure.
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