GHMC to bring un-assessed properties into tax net

Hyderabad: GHMC Commissioner M. Dana Kishore has directed all the Zonal and Deputy Commissioners to take up the new assessments of all the un-assessed properties on priority.
 
A review meeting has been conducted with all the ZCs and DCs, AMOHs with regard to property tax collection and collection should be taken up on war footing basis as the revision of Electoral rolls again will be starting from 1st January. Hence top priority has to be given to the Property Tax collection, said the Commissioner.
 
Dana Kishore stated that from the last 3 months the entire GHMC staff was on election duty and no collection of Property Tax was taken up. In this contest the Commissioner instructed all the Tax Officials to concentrate more on new and un-assessed properties for the improvement of the tax collection to reach the target assigned.
 
The Commissioner will be interacting with all the Tax Officials daily to have a proper coordination for the improvement of property tax collection. So far the GHMC has collected Rs. 745 crores as on till date still remaining 755 crores has to be collected to reach the target of Rs. 1500 crores for this financial year 2018-19.