The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) said there has been a four-time rise in online payment of property tax by the citizens during the pandemic.
The economic activities were badly-affected due to the pandemic and the NMC also had to deploy its staff from the property tax department for Covid-related services across the city.
According to an NMC official, the online payment of property tax was only 5% before the pandemic, but now has increased to over 20%.
“The civic body collected Rs 120 crore towards property tax during the last financial year out of which Rs 30 crore were collected via online payments,” an official said.
The NMC has also introduced upto 5% rebate in property tax to those who pay their annual property tax in one go. As per the scheme, those who paid their annual property tax by May 31 got a 5% rebate. The concession was reducded to 3% for payments made before June 30 and those clearing their dues by July 31 will get a 2% rebate.
Due to this system, the property tax collection of NMC has increased by 20% to Rs 37 crore till July 12 this year.