Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services ... - Municipal
Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services ... - Municipal
Tamil Nadu Urban Infrastructure Financial Services ... - Municipal
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Issues Recommended Interventions<br />
Rate of<br />
taxation and<br />
monitoring<br />
Increasing<br />
assessments<br />
1. Implementation of quinquennial ARV revision as recommend by SFC and<br />
removal of distortions in rates wherever existent.<br />
2. Apart from collection efficiency, the ratio of assessments to population<br />
and growth of assessments should also be tracked and monitored at<br />
the highest level.<br />
3. There should be changes instituted to the policy of Vacant Land tax to<br />
introduce steep step up in taxes for vacant land particularly in peri-urban<br />
areas to incentivise development. Vacant land are often prone to abuse in<br />
the form of encroachments, poor maintenance and dumping of garbage.<br />
Therefore an increase in Vacant land tax can be ploughed back for<br />
supporting the costs municipalities often incur in managing and preventing<br />
such abuses.<br />
4. Property tax information of various residential units should be published<br />
online in the same manner as the guideline values that are published<br />
5. Move to GIS-based database to track, update and retrieve property tax<br />
information<br />
6. It should be made compulsory for all new building constructions to<br />
display the building permission details obtained from the municipality<br />
for construction. The municipality should actively encourage its citizens to<br />
report unauthorised buildings construction and should disseminate online<br />
information on action taken on such constructions to dissuade such activity.<br />
Capturing information on unauthorised construction at the initial stages<br />
through such efforts would go a long way in preventing the rampant growth<br />
of unauthorised and unassessed constructions in our towns and cities.<br />
7. Conduct a one-time survey to compile database of properties and initiate<br />
sample checks in all wards on an ongoing basis. The Commissioner<br />
should undertake ‘surprise checks’ on a regular basis in various wards<br />
to provide a sense of enforcement both to the municipal officials and to<br />
citizens for encouraging compliance.<br />
8. Reconcile and link assessment information with building permissions<br />
issued and initiate a drive to bring unassessed properties under the tax<br />
net.<br />
9. Reconcile manual and computerised registers to identify and bring in<br />
left-out assessments into the tax net.<br />
10. Blanket exemptions should be reviewed. Revenue loss due to exemptions<br />
should be compensated by GoTN.<br />
11. A strong coordination between departments within the municipality by<br />
itself bring significant increase in assessment base and collection<br />
efficiency. The Revenue department should reconcile its information across<br />
various databases on households and other commercial properties available<br />
within the municipality. Specific suggestions in this regard are listed below:<br />
o The Property tax database should be regularly updated based on the<br />
status of Building permissions issued by Town Planning department<br />
o Whenever the Engineering department provides water and sewage<br />
CCP cum BP - Krishnagiri <strong>Municipal</strong>ity 79