Your house or commercial property will soon be assigned a unique code number that would be exclusive in the entire state and would contain all the identification details of the property.
The state government has taken the house tax evasion seriously and decided to allot a unique code to each house so that none are left out of the ambit of house and general tax and all properties, both residential and commercial, are brought under tax net.
The unique code system would also check the manipulation in house tax assessment and is likely to be enforced in the entire state, said municipal corporation sources.
As per information, each house will have a unique code in the state consisting of 16 digits and a letter.
The first two numbers would denote the state. The next three digits (3,4 & 5) would be code of the local body, sixth and seventh will represent zones, and eighth, ninth and 10th would represent the ward.
The digits from 11 to 16 will be code of the property and 17 will be a letter, R, N or M. R will represent residential, N would indicate non-residential and M will be mixed (residential-cum-non-residential) and would indicate whether the property is residential or commercial.
Several corporators said that more than 70,000 houses in the city are out of tax net due to laxity of KMC employees. Bringing them under the tax net would increase the income of KMC, they claimed.
Navin Pandit, a local corporator, welcomed the unique code system and said correct assessment of tax would improve the financial state of the municipal corporation.
The code would clearly demarcate whether a property is residential or commercial or mixed. At present, several residential houses are being used for commercial purposes, but are still paying tax on residential rate.
Kanpur Municipal Corporation has hired a Lucknow-based firm to conduct a survey to collect all details of each house. The company has so far completed the survey in five out of 110 wards in Kanpur.