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The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has started taking stringent enactment against its Revenue unit resorting to corruption and malpractices successful spot taxation collection. Sending a beardown connection across, Commissioner R.V. Karnan has placed the services of 2 measure collectors nether suspension pending enquiry, aft receiving complaints against them.
In the archetypal lawsuit which was reported much than a period ago, the spot successful question astatine Santhosh Nagar had remained reportedly unassessed for the past 45 years. It came into the taxation radar aft the GPS and drone surveys, aft which arsenic portion of the crushed truthing process, the measure collector visited the house.
Officials nether the information of anonymity informed that the authoritative collected a sum of ₹1.45 lakh from the owner, by mode of taxation for 3 years on with punishment arsenic per the provisions of GHMC Act, 1955. He, however, paid lone 1 year’s tax, with the volition of retaining the remaining magnitude for himself.
However, things did not spell his way, erstwhile the owner, upon not getting a receipt for taxation paid nor immoderate effect contempt aggregate calls, raised a stink astir the incidental and complained to the commissioner. Mr. Karnan issued orders placing the measure collector acrophobic Emmanuel nether suspension.
In the 2nd instance, the authorities responded to the quality nonfiction published successful The Hindu titled ‘Property taxation revision thrust marred by claims of extortion by GHMC staff’ successful which a lawsuit from aged metropolis was mentioned wherein the measure collector acrophobic served a announcement to the spot proprietor and threatened to treble the tax. The proprietor was forced to wage ₹10,000 to the authoritative by mode of bribe. A study was sent to the Commissioner astir the incident, and the measure collector of Malakpet, named Manohar, was placed nether suspension.
Officials informed that successful some cases, the errant officials reportedly were made to instrumentality the bribe amounts to the spot owners.
