It’s mandatory for aspiring candidates to pay property tax before civic poll

Pay property tax to be eligible for contest to poll in the election

Now Maharashtra property department has reason to joy as more than 1,800 people, including poll contestants are now queuing up to pay property tax before the upcoming NMMC election (Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation). Now it will be mandatory for aspiring candidates to clear all their pending dues with the corporations to be eligible for contest to poll in the election and acquire NOC (No Objection Certificate) from the department.

Even those who propose or second the proposal of a civic candidate, they all have to pay up all arrears and dues. According to assessor and collector P B Kulkarni, “such large turnout to pay property tax or if they are seeking for NOC so it’s rare. But before elections, all the aspirants and other members who are involved in proposing or supporting candidates they need to certificate. In simple words we can say that the major part of payments is primarily due to the coming elections”.

In other words we can say that the majority of payments are primarily due in the coming elections, stated by collector and assessor P B Kulkarni. In last 15 years, the property department has managed to recover a sum of Rs 3 crore from 1,700-odd individuals, as till Friday, the department has issued NOCs to 1,762 individuals. As per the pending applications, officials are expecting that more than 2,500 individuals to make payments. As per the statement of officials, “at this point of time we are expecting more payments before the deadline for filling nominations lapses, as department should be able to recover taxes of around Rs 6.5 crore”.

Now property department of Maharashtra is conducting recovery drives to meet its annual target of Rs 425 crore, however notice has been issued for more than 23,628people who are defaulters and punitive action such as disconnecting water supply of 48 individuals are being initiated. The more Mr. Kulkarni added that a list of attach bank accounts of 163 defaulters has been prepared however till now action has been taken against 89 people.