In a pioneering effort, the city corporation has initiated steps to implement the new revised property tax structure in the city.
Though the local self government department had issued the revision order in January 2011, no other city corporation in the state has initiated steps to implement the revised system.
The new self assessment tax system, based on the floor area, will soon come into effect as officials from the revenue department are to go on a door-to-door delivery of tax assessment return forms from Monday.
“Officials will be pressed into service from Monday. They will distribute tax return forms to building owners who have to submit them to the civic body within 60 days of the notification period. The door-to-door distribution is to make people familiar with the new system and to make self-assessment easy. After distributing the forms, a notification will be published,” said a top revenue department administrator.
There are four lakh doors in the city. After submitting the tax return forms, the local body will give the buildings a unique code number.
This will help to identify them easily and also to find whether they are occupied or whether they are authorised. All details of the buildings will be entered into the revenue department’s GIS based map and databank.
It is after 17 years that the civic body has hiked the property tax. Apart from the floor area, other aspects such as location (zone), road connectivity, size and age of the building, type of the floor, roof and walls will also be considered.
“Assessment will be given on the basis of closeness to roads (national highway, state highway, other roads or walkways) and zones. The 74 divisions have been divided into three zones: primary, secondary and tertiary,” the source added.