Chas Municipal Corporation (CMC) came down heavily on major defaulters of holding tax. Notice has been served to 20 major defaulters of holding tax during the current financial year, said SP Jha Additional Municipal Commissioner CMC.
A large number of people had paid holding tax voluntarily, but owners of some major business houses, showrooms and office complexes are yet to pay their dues, he said.
Presently, we have served notices to 20 major defaulters who have all total dues of Rs 19 lakhs 37 hundred of holding tax. “We have asked them to clear their dues immediately. In case they failed to do so their bank accounts would be frozen and later proceeding of seizing of their properties will be initiated,” added Jha.
The major defaulters are V Kakkar and S Kakkar (Rs 2.63 L), Chas Jail (Rs 1.73 L), M Pandey (1.65 L), Executive Engineer JSEB (87 K), Forest office ( Rs 74.85 K), KM Memorial Hospital (Rs 74 K), R Nagina (1.49 L), AK Mishra (Rs 1.09 L), R Devi (70 K), RB Singh, S V Singh, U Kunwar and Dhananjay Prasad (60 K) including others were asked to immediately clear their dues taxes, informed an official.
Municipal Corporation is preparing to come down heavily on the defaulters, notification has already been issued, he said. As per the notification, buildings were assessed under two categories — residential and building or premises on rent. Following the notification, the CMC tax collectors were given special mobilisation and assessment training to boost the holding tax collection.
A CMC official said, flouting norms to adopt rainwater harvesting systems, erection of private as well as government buildings is on the rise here; despite the fact that the Government had made the system mandatory for each building across the State.
Except few, over thousands of households are yet to set up a rainwater harvesting system. Despite the repeated attempts of the Municipal Corporation to make the public understand the need and importance of rainwater harvesting, he said.
Rainwater harvesting system is an essential component in a map to construct a new building, said Bholu Paswan Mayor CMC.
Stringent action would be taken against those who found flouting the norms, said Paswan adding “defaulters will have to face a heavy penalty.”
I have asked officials to prepare a list of buildings that have not yet installed rainwater harvesting systems yet, said Mayor
We are at work to identify such buildings which lack RWH, for commercial buildings penalty would be much higher, he said.
