Commercial properties in newly-inducted 13 villages into the Chandigarh municipal corporation are all set to give a financial boost to the civic body by fetching nearly Rs 50 lakh annually, with the corporation preparing bills asking those properties to pay commercial property tax from the upcoming financial year, starting April 1.
According to a door-to-door survey, these villages have a total 3,138 commercial properties of different types, mostly housing shops and hotels. Since these properties will be paying the commercial property tax for the first time, the tax branch of the civic body has done their exact measurement, recorded the nature of works and other details also for making the digital record of the at a later stage.
“Since all these properties will be digitally recorded on the lines of other properties, we have gathered each and every record of these properties during the survey. If somebody makes any addition or altercation without informing the MC, additional charges will be slapped from the day of notification,” said an official dealing with the subject.
Out of these 13 villages, Daria village has the maximum number of commercial properties. Dhanas, Behlana, Kishangarh and Mauli Jagran have also significant number of such properties.
All these villages were transferred to the Chandigarh municipal corporation in October 2018 and since then, the MC was trying to convince the general house on the need to impose the tax, but the house members were opposed to it and were not ready to listen to the financial constraints of the civic body.
The corporation had also citied that the UT AG had already created a matter of revenue loss owing to these villages remaining out of the tax ambit. Following the reluctant nature of the MC over slapping of tax, the local bodies department of the UT administration issued a notification to bring all these villages into the tax ambit.
