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BJP demands tax date extension

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, SEPT. 6. The senior BJP Councillor, Vijender Kumar Gupta, today demanded an ordinance to extend the last date for availing rebate for one-time time payment of house tax from September 30 to December 31.

In a resolution moved in the MCD House here, Mr. Gupta argued that several crucial issues relayed to house tax had still not been sorted out and residents needed reasonable time to deposit their tax.

The resolution was sent to the Municipal Commissioner, Rakesh Mehta, for comments. Another Councillor, Hiren Tokas, demanded that all the urbanised villages be exempted from house tax.

"When the Government had acquired our land, we were promised jobs to unemployed youths. Nothing has been given to us. Further the civic amenities have been poor in all the urbanised villages," he complained.

The Leader of the Opposition, Subhash Arya, pointed towards contradictory statements by various MCD officials about revenue generation from the House Tax Department after the implementation of the Unit Area Method.

On the one hand, the Municipal Commissioner, Rakesh Mehta, has stated that threw would be no shortfall in revenue under the new system, his Assessor and Collector has given a press statement that this would result in considerable downfall in collection of tax," Mr. Arya said.

The Standing Committee Chairman, Mukesh Goel, claimed there would be no shortfall in revenue collection. "We are all geared up to collect more tax than previous years. This is only an effort to misguide the public," he claimed.

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