The city corporation on Tuesday released a list of top 100 defaulters who had failed to pay a sum of Rs 21 crore in total as property tax and had warned them to pay the due amount immediately.
The civic body had compiled a list of top 20 defaulters in each zone and some of them had not paid the property tax from as early as 1998. The defaulters list includes educational institutions, hotels, companies, supermarkets and a shopping complex.
The pending property tax that needs to be paid by the top 20 defaulters is Rs 5.66 crore in east zone, Rs 1 crore in west zone, Rs 2.14 crore in south zone, Rs 4.58 crores in north zone and Rs 7.59 crore in central zone, according to the list.
Corporation commissioner P Kumaravel Pandian in a statement directed all the defaulters to pay their pending amount immediately if not drinking water connection would be disconnected as per the Section 204 (1) of Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation Act, 1981.
If they failed to pay the amount even after disconnecting the water supply connection, movable properties would be seized by the corporation, he added.
A civic body source said most of the defaulters had not paid the tax amount since 2017 and in some cases years before that. “The defaulters have already crossed the deadline to pay their due amount and now only grace time – a week or so – is given to them. If they fail to pay, we will take action.”
