The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has pegged the dues from property tax and associated cesses until Could 18 at Rs 711.71 crore.
The dues are from 3.63 lakh properties unfold throughout eight BBMP zones. Round a fourth of the pending property tax funds are from the Mahadevapura zone the place 76,132 properties owe Rs 174.88 crore.
The BBMP West zone, the place Mantri Mall was shut down for the third time in six months, had 35,084 properties that owed Rs 103.26 crore. Of the quantity, Rs 41 crore is alleged to be the dues from the mall since 2019. The mall was closed on Could 10 for non-payment. Every week after it was closed, the Karnataka Excessive Courtroom issued an interim order directing the BBMP to open the mall, and the mall developer to deposit Rs 20 crore with the BBMP earlier than July 31, of which Rs 3.5 crore is to be deposited earlier than June 1. The BBMP is prone to problem the order because it sought full cost by July 31.
The dues within the South zone are Rs 108.28 crore from 35,742 properties, Rs 95.03 crore in Bommanahalli from 57,043 properties, Rs 24.20 crore in Dasarahalli from 17,223 properties, Rs 98.04 crore within the East zone from 49,385 properties, Rs 54.03 crore in Rajarajeshwari Nagar from 55,073 properties and Rs 53.71 crore in Yelahanka from 38,188 properties.
The BBMP can be pursuing 16,657 revision instances the place property homeowners have paid much less tax than they had been sure to pay. The quantity underpaid to the civic physique is estimated at Rs 231.77 crore.
In line with Munish Moudgil, Particular Commissioner, BBMP (Income), regardless of day by day alerts by the civic physique the arrears weren’t being cleared. “The BBMP will begin enforcement for restoration as per regulation quickly,” he stated.
The BBMP in March this 12 months prolonged the final date to avail of a 5 per cent rebate on cost of property taxes from Could 1 to July 31.
Within the 2023-24 price range, the BBMP set a property tax assortment goal of Rs 4,600 crore and elevated it to Rs 6,000 crore for the 2024-25 fiscal.