Mumbai: The civic House has passed a proposal to change the property tax calculation system from ratable to one based on capital value, citing it as urgent business. However, some corporators said there was no urgency to clear the plan.
Congress corporator Asif Zakaria said, "The administration sneaked in the proposal by claiming it was urgent business. Most corporators did not even know that it was on the agenda for discussion. When I told the mayor that it was an important issue and needed discussion, he rebuffed me saying he had to rush because of the fire at Mantralaya."
Defending the administration, standing committee chairman Rahul Shewale said, "The property tax proposal had already been passed in the standing committee, indicating that there wasn't any opposition to it. We had to pass the proposal as it was high time we started collecting the taxes."
According to the BMC, 3.87 lakh properties would benefit from tax reduction, whereas 2.75 lakh would face a higher rate of taxation.  |
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