JMC-H fails to collect tax, officials set target for Jan

Jaipur: The JMC-Heritage officials have given a target for January to increase tax collection from this month itself. The corporation has been unable to collect even 50% of the tax in 2022-23, which includes urban development tax, house tax and tax on advertisements on roads.
The corporation has prepared to seal the properties of big defaulters now and a team is being formed for this consisting of vigilance branch, revenue officers and revenue inspectors to recover tax. This team will attach the properties of big defaulters of UD tax.
During a review meeting regarding tax collection, both mayor Munesh Gurjar and commissioner Vishram Meena said that if there is laxity in issuing demand notices, ex-party notices, the responsibility of the officers and employees will be fixed.
Officials said that in the financial year 2022-23 in Adarsh Nagar Zone Rs 40.53 crore was outstanding towards urban development Tax, in which the target of recovery was Rs 8.10 crore in 2022-23 and from April 1, 2022 to November 29, 2022 the target was Rs 5.40 crore but during this period only Rs 2.11 crore revenue could be received. Similarly, Rs 127.87 crore was outstanding in Civil Line Zone and the target was Rs 26.96 crore and from April 1, 2022 to November 29, 2022, Rs 6.84 crore revenue could be collected. In the Hawa Mahal-Amer zone, Rs 32.73 crore was due and the target was Rs 6.43 crore and from April-November, Rs 1.28 crore could be recovered.
In Kishan Pole zone, Rs 69.30 crore was outstanding of which Rs 2.35 crore could be recovered.
The commissioner gave instructions to achieve the target and bring promptness in recovery of outstanding Rs 14.01 crore in all the four zones on account of private advertisement fee.
Officials also said that in JMC-Heritage, 17,017 properties have been surveyed and marked for urban development tax.