NEW DELHI: South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) is likely to come up with an amnesty scheme in the next two months to waive property tax due in unauthorised colonies till financial year 2016-17. SDMC standing committee chairman Bhupender Gupta, on Thursday, asked the department concerned to prepare a draft of the scheme to provide relief to the assesses of unauthorised colonies, rural and urban villages.
"In the past, we have provided relief to tax payers in the authorised colonies, but now, we aim to extend the benefit to the unauthorised ones. Also, they are not in the position to pay such huge amounts," Gupta said.
He added that the departments have been asked to accept self-declaration of property owners, which would be from the year of possession, as a certificate for calculating the house tax. "The decision will come a long way in extending the tax net. Apart from this, they become regular in depositing their property tax every year," he said.
To simplify the process, SDMC will look for easier method than the unit area for these neighbourhoods. "The next amnesty scheme will include the cases assessed under rateble value method where demand is outstanding on March, 2019,"said Gupta.
Clarifying its stand on the loopholes shown in the audit report tabled in standing committee meeting last week, the leader of house Kamaljeet Sherawat said the outstanding amount includes over Rs 600 crore, which is due from DDA.
The audit report flagged that SDMC did not collect the property tax of Rs 1,177.5 crore from both the government and the private properties during the period prior to 2004.