Property tax: Owners of choultries, cinemas, hotels not satisfied with changes

They say relief makes no difference; may move court

Even though the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has decided to scrap “super commercial” category and bring marriage choultries, cinemas and hotels under a new commercial category with a revised property tax structure, their owners are far from satisfied. The MCC’s decision to fix a rate of tax higher than the commercial properties for these buildings by bracketing them as “super commercial” in 2007 had long been resented by owners, who had made a series of representations to the authorities. During the last meeting of the MCC council, a decision was taken to scrap the “super commercial” category, but bring the marriage choultries, theatres and hotels under a new’ commercial B’ category distinct from the regular ‘commercial A’ category.