CHANDIGARH: The tax branch of the Chandigarh municipal corporation on Thursday issued attachment-cum-sealing notices to nine commercial properties in the city. These defaulter properties have been given 15 days' time to pay up their outstanding tax money, after which their properties will be sealed without any prior notice or intimation. The defaulter commercial properties collectively owe over Rs 4.15 lakh to the civic body. This is third lot of attachment-cum-sealing notices that the tax branch of the municipal corporation has issued to the commercial properties in the city. "We gave enough time to the defaulter commercial properties to pay their outstanding... Now we are regularly issuing notices, and in the coming days, more such notices will be sent to the defaulters," said an MC official.
Sources in the corporation revealed that since the inflow of property tax revenue has declined over the recent past, the MC has been tightening the noose on the commercial property tax violators. A two-month-long rebate scheme from April 1 to May 31 this year was also launched by the corporation to incentivize clearing of property tax outstanding, wherein 20% and 10% rebates were given to the occupants of residential and commercial properties, respectively.
During this period, the authorities managed to collect around Rs 30 lakh. Those, who failed to pay their property tax then, will have to pay now 25% penalty amount and 12% interest, along with the entire due amount of tax.