90% property tax collection from ULBs despite pandemic
The Hindu
Nine municipalities register 100% tax collection
Municipal corporations and municipalities across Telangana have collected 90% of the property tax on demand from 20-odd lakh dwellings despite the pandemic in the last financial year of 2020-21 ending March this year. The 141 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), other than GHMC, had collected about ₹495 crore and another ₹226 crore of arrears, making for a total of over ₹720 crore. The precise demand for the 20,24,315 properties has been ₹531 crore with arrears coming to ₹268 crore or a total of about ₹799 crore, said Director of Municipal Administration (DMA) N. Satyanrayana on Monday. While nine, albeit smaller, municipalities, have registered a cent per cent property tax collection, even mopping up the arrears, 99 ULBs collected property tax of 90% of the demand or more.
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