In a first of its kind major move against commercial tax defaulters of the city, the municipal corporation on Friday evening pasted sealing-cum-attachment notices at 50 commercial properties for not paying property tax worth lakhs after serving multiple notices to them.
Significantly, majority of these tax defaulters’ properties are situated in key commercial areas of the northern part of the city namely Sectors 7, 8, 9, 11, 20 etc.
“These defaulter properties are comprising of shop-cum-offices, shop-cum-flats and booths. As per the sealing notice, now if the occupiers of these defaulter properties do not pay tax within 15 days, their buildings will be sealed without any further notice to them and they won’t be given any opportunity,” said a senior official of the MC.
“Besides the normal recovery notices to these defaulters, we had sent them final notices also to give them optimum opportunity to pay the tax money, but they turned reluctant, which forced us to serve them sealing notice,” he added.
Since March is the last month of the ongoing financial year 2019-2020, the tax branch of the municipal corporation is not leaving defaulters and taking strict action against them as they have to prepare a detailed report in this regard and submit the same to the senior officers of the civic body authority.
As per records of the tax branch of the municipal corporation, Chandigarh, the city has around 80,000 residential and 26,000 commercial properties falling under the tax ambit. Till date, the tax branch of the MC has collected over Rs 50 crore tax amount from both these categories.
