Telangana owes property tax worth Rs 678 crore to GHMC
Deccan ChronicleHYDERABAD: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has a big headache – to recover over Rs 678 crore pending property taxes – that too from a defaulter against whom the civic body cannot do anything – the government of Telangana! Officials of the property tax wing of the GHMC said a whopping Rs 678.64 crore, out of a total Rs 714 crore property tax dues, is owed by the government. According to official data collected from the GHMC sources, the state government has been allocating less than Rs 32 crore per annum at a time when the actual property tax demand was Rs 102 crore, on about 2,500 government buildings in the civic body limits. The Chief Minister’s office has to clear Rs 1,91,794 property tax dues, with accrued interest of Rs 34,524, during the first half on the financial year 2018-19, Rs 2,64,045 with interest of Rs 1,58,427 in the second half of the same financial year. The civic body has to receive Rs 15,12,019 principal amount pertaining to property tax excluding interest amount of Rs 5,09,805 till 2020-21.