MCD cracks down on property tax defaulters

‘Civic body sending messages to tax defaulters; if they fail to reply, notices will be served to defaulters for unpaid dues’.

- TIKAM SHARMA NEW DELHI

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) had started sending a message to the 10 lakh defaulters who had not paid property tax in the last one or two years. MCD had also imposed property tax on houses in villages that are less than 200 square metres, said Yogesh Varma, a BJP councillor. He said MCD has threatened and created so much pressure on the public that they will seal their houses if they don’t pay property tax. “The BJP was not against taxes but for those people who cannot pay property tax like farmers who work in their small areas and are economically poor, there will be no loss in MCD by waiving tax,” said Raja Iqbal Singh, leader of the Opposition.