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GHMC Makes Property Tax Payment Easy
7 months, 1 week ago

GHMC Makes Property Tax Payment Easy

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: With an aim to collect Rs 2,200 crore in property tax in the current financial year, the GHMC served notice to eight lakh owners — for the first time — through text messages with a link to the payment gateway to pay up their tax. Previously, the property tax notice — also called property tax demand bill — was …

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She was already battling cancer. Then she had to fight the bill collectors
2 years, 6 months ago

She was already battling cancer. Then she had to fight the bill collectors

NPR  

She was already battling cancer. "It's crippling," said Dr. Veena Shankaran, a University of Washington oncologist who began studying the financial impact of cancer after seeing patients ruined by medical bills. "The problem is that model doesn't work very well with cancer," said Dr. David Eagle, an oncologist at New York Cancer & Blood Specialists. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, …

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Water bills to go cashless soon in Hyderabad
3 years, 3 months ago

Water bills to go cashless soon in Hyderabad

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board is heading towards facilitating cashless payments for its 7.35 lakh consumers. The board then agreed to accept payment through debit cards from consumers via bill collectors would come to their doorstep with e-PoS machines. A senior Water Board official said that about 2.5 lakh consumers had availed of the 20-KL-a-month free …

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Corrupt bill collectors rob GHMC of Rs 200 crore property tax annually
4 years ago

Corrupt bill collectors rob GHMC of Rs 200 crore property tax annually

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The ground-level staff working in the revenue wing has been indulging in high-level corruption. Property taxpayers allege that bill collectors, who are supposed to collect three years penalty on unauthorised properties, have been demanding only a year’s penalty from residents in order to waive-off three years penalty and depositing 50 percent of tax collected into GHMC's account. The other …

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Hyderabad: Drone survey to boost tax kitty
5 years, 5 months ago

Hyderabad: Drone survey to boost tax kitty

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Vexed with corrupt bill collectors, the GHMC has decided to embark on a drone survey and use the Geographic Information System for accurate assessment of properties in the city. The corporation which expected to garner Rs 200 crore through re-verification of about 2 lakh properties whose property tax is above Rs 1,200, got a shock when field staff, after …

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Timely tax collection can fill GHMC coffers
5 years, 5 months ago

Timely tax collection can fill GHMC coffers

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Due to rampant corruption at the ground level, the GHMC has been losing out on Rs 4,000 crore in the form of property tax. Corporation officials said that if the property tax is assessed accurately and collected timely, the civic body can fund infrastructure projects and regular maintainance works on its own. Highly-placed sources said that the civic body …

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