This story is from May 17, 2015

LMC suffers loss as rent revision eludes landlords

More than 30% houses in the city are not in the revised rent ambit causing a loss of Rs 40 crore per annum to the cash strapped Lucknow Municipal Corporation, which has now passed orders to survey and evaluate all houses whose taxes are not assessed properly.
LMC suffers loss as rent revision eludes landlords
LUCKNOW: More than 30% houses in the city are not in the revised rent ambit causing a loss of Rs 40 crore per annum to the cash strapped Lucknow Municipal Corporation, which has now passed orders to survey and evaluate all houses whose taxes are not assessed properly.
The corporation collects an amount of Rs 130 crore as house tax when only Rs 3.53 lakh properties are evaluated properly out of the total 5.03 lakh properties.
The rent of around 20,000 properties has not been revised since 2002 while of over 1.36 lakh properties has not been revised 2010 onwards. Some of these house owners are paying the rent which was evaluated before 2002 while there are some who are not paying any money as House Tax.
The report states that majority of the houses left out are in Zone I where 44% did not have their tax revised or property assessed for years. The areas include Hazratganj, Maaqboolganj, Balakadar, Qaiserbagh, Golaganj, Jiyamau and Nazirabad. Next come Zone II and Zone V where 37% houses do not pay the appropriate tax amount.
Blaming this negligence on low manpower, the additional municipal commissioner P K Srivastava said, “We have only two or three tax inspectors and few collectors for 5 lakh houses in the city. Some properties were left out since 2002 while a major number of houses were left out from tax revision since 2010.”
Municipal commissioner Uday Raj Singh has given a July 15 deadline to complete evaluation and assign tax of these properties.
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