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With little than 50% realisation of spot taxation postulation till date, the Kurnool Municipal Corporation (KMC) has enactment absorption connected postulation of spot taxation dues earlier the extremity of the fiscal year. Special teams person been formed and it was decided to instrumentality punitive enactment against those who person not paid spot taxation for years together.
KMC Commissioner P. Viswanatha formed 3 peculiar teams for postulation of agelong pending arrears and made it wide that the Corporation volition nary much beryllium lenient towards defaulters. Mr. Viswanatha said improvement of the metropolis tin beryllium achieved with availability of funds and agelong lasting arrears should beryllium collected astatine immoderate cost. He instructed officials to place and hole the database of agelong pending defaulters and instrumentality contiguous steps for seizure and confiscating their properties.
One each squad volition beryllium led by Additional Commissioner RGV Krishna, Deputy Commissioner Satish Kumar Reddy and Secretary Nagaraju and volition person a gross inspector arsenic its subordinate and volition beryllium assisted by different staff.
“Every squad should prehend 2 properties of defaulters successful the greeting and different 2 properties successful the evening. A full of 12 properties should beryllium seized connected a day,” the Commissioner instructed.
Following the orders, connected Monday unsocial 12 properties were seized by the peculiar teams. Among the seized properties is Kurnool Club which had to wage arrears of ₹7.25 lakh. As the absorption paid the dues, the Corporation officials handed implicit the keys of the spot to the management. Similarly, officials person disconnected drinking h2o pat transportation to the location of a defaulter V Prabhu Das who had ₹2.12 lakh spot taxation dues pending for the past 8 years, Mr. RGV Krishna said.
Another commercialized constitution proprietor astatine Venkataramana Colony paid ₹4 lakh pending arrears erstwhile the Corporation officials went to prehend the property.
Mr. Krishna said outgo of taxes volition assistance the Corporation make roads, operation of drainage lines, attraction of parks, thoroughfare lights and providing drinking h2o and widen national services to the optimum level.
According to KMC officials, determination are 1,24,049 spot taxation assessees successful the city. As of January 19, the full arrears are ₹45.33 crore and the request for the contiguous twelvemonth is ₹82.77 crore taking the full request to ₹128.11 crore. The Corporation had postulation ₹8.71 crore arrears and ₹50.35 crore for the existent twelvemonth taxes which comes to ₹57.06 crore postulation signaling 44.54 % of the full demand.
On the different hand, the Corporation has besides focussed connected collecting pending commercialized licence fees from traders and had precocious issued closure notices connected 196 shops which person kept ₹15 lakh pending. Similarly, the Corporation had seized 3 store for non-payment of commercialized licence adjacent aft serving closure notices.
