NEW DELHI, 6 March (H.S.) : The New Delhi

Municipal Council (NDMC) has decided to open property tax collection counters

as well as tax offices every Saturday and Sunday in addition to the normal

working days in the month of March. NDMC has announced that due to the final

phase of the financial year 2024-2025, it will remain open every Saturday and

Sunday in addition to the normal working days in March.

The notice

said that by declaring the entire month of March as working days for the

purpose of tax collection, taxpayers have been facilitated in depositing their

due tax payments in time.

NDMC has set

up three deposit counters for depositing tax: Shaheed Bhagat Singh Place Cash

Counter at Gole Market, Palika Bhawan Cash Counter at RK Puram, and Palika

Kendra Cash Counter at Sansad Marg. NDMC oversees tax on about 15,600

properties in its jurisdiction. These include about 1600 government properties

and about 14 thousand private properties. Out of these, one thousand properties

are exempt from taxation. Rs 807 crore has been collected from 9,600 taxable

properties till mid-February 2024-25. The last date for depositing tax for this

financial year has been fixed as March 31. The NDMC aims to collect Rs 1,150

crore from property tax in 2024-25. Rs 1,030 crore was collected in 2023-24.

Besides this, property owners can deposit their taxes online, and their

respective RWAs are also helping those who are not comfortable with the online

system to deposit the tax.

Hindusthan Samachar / Meenakshi Bhattacharya