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NDMC to introduce tax payment online

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: There is good news for property owners in the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) areas -- long queues to pay their tax will soon be a thing of the past. Following the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) lead, the NDMC is going to let people pay their property tax online.

"It will take sometime before the tax can be paid online. But this facility should be available to users this financial year. Apart from giving tax-owners the option of paying online, we are now moving to reduce the paper-work in the department,'' said a senior NDMC official.

With mammoth registers -- in which details of every transaction was minutely recorded -- being eliminated, things will be much simpler for the staff and much faster for property tax owners.

"The MCD has started payment online from April for property tax and there has been a very good response to the scheme. Already 8,000 properties have been registered. We have helped the MCD in setting up their system and have been working with the NDMC from March,'' said Project Director of eGovernments Foundation Ramdeep Singh.

The system used by the MCD to calculate property tax is based self-assessment by the Unit Area Method, which the NDMC is hoping to be able to implement soon. However, the online system in both cases allows users to view the details of their property before paying the tax.

"The NDMC use the Annual Rental Value at the moment. The civic agency sends a bill to the owners. Earlier they used to take this bill go to the NDMC office, stand in a queue and then get a receipt from the counter. Now they will be able to get online, punch in their bill number and check the details and finally be able to pay this amount through their credit card,'' explained Mr. Singh.

While swiping the credit card on the Internet may not be available for a month or so, but property tax owners will notice a definite change if they pay their tax before the end of this month. Unlike the handwritten receipts that they received from NDMC, they will get computerised ones.

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