PANCHKULA: Soon, the residents of Panchkula district will get a revised amount for paying property tax, as the urban local bodies has been directed by the Haryana government to conduct a fresh survey. Sources said the residents of Panchkula complained to the higher authorities that often the amount fixed after the survey conducted by the municipal corporation (MC) was not accurate. As a result, the residents were often asked to pay more property tax.
The MC had surveyed nearly 70,000 houses in the three cities that include Pinjore and Kalka, as well as Panchkula.
Recently, Haryana government has hired an agency that is conducting the survey again after which property tax fee will be generated for individual, government and commercial properties. Sources said the data that the MC was acting is almost 10 years old.
Jarnail Singh, executive officer of the municipal corporation, said his office often receives complaints that tax is far more than it should be, following which the MC had to send a team to verify. But now the new survey will set this issue right and authorities can take stringent action against the violators, he added.
Meanwhile, the Panchkula municipal corporation (MC) is tightening its grip on the defaulters.
On Wednesday, the municipal corporation commissioner issued notices under section 130 of the Haryana Municipal Corporation Act, 1994, stating that "You are informed that in case you fail to pay property tax by February 21 the property mentioned in paragraph (1) of this order will be attached and sold through public auction."