As the Jammu & Kashmir administration clarified that property levies to be assessed then will be the smallest in the country, mayors and corporators of Srinagar external pot and Jammu mayor said they wo n’t apply the order. This indeed as the administration has now asked elderly officers to educate people and stakeholders about the duty which is being assessed for the first time in J&K. Indeed the mayors and deputy officers of Srinagar and Jammu are being briefed about the levies. The administration is eyeing a substantial profit increase from the property duty to be assessed in Srinagar and Jammu metropolises and other cosmopolises in the UT.
Jammu mayor Rajinder Sharma said that soon after the administration issued a announcement for duty of property duty from April 1, he was the first to advertise that they wo n’t apply this duty. “ The government has now amended the rules and property duty can be assessed without resolution being passed by corporators, ” he said. “ The administration can now relieve us( corporators), ” he added.
Sharma said that if they( corporators) produce any manacle, also the administration can stop our finances. “ After studying the offer, I suppose the duty wo n’t be a big burden on the people. We hope to raise ₹ 30 to 35 crores annually from the property duty, ” said Sharma, adding that plutocrat will be utilised for the benefit of the people. “ I suppose we ca n’t stop this duty. ”
Soon after the annocement of a new duty, Srinagar mayor and deputy mayor said the pot wo n’t apply the property duty. “ duty of property duty in J&K is ironically violative of external commission as this has neither been meditated upon, nor approved by tagged civic original bodies. While Srinagar MC will explore ways to dispute this arbitrary move, I’m writing to the Hon’ble LG seeking a pullout of the SO, ” twittered City Mayor Junaid Azeem Mattu. Deputy mayor Pervaz Qadri went a step further, saying they will reject the offer and asked people not to horrify. “ People need to understand that duty of property duty is only SO of Govt & before perpetration that has to be first passed by SMC; we’re rejecting the offer indeed at its appearance & it wo n’t get concurrence of corporators to get it passed by SMC. People shouldn’t get panicked, ” he twittered hours after order was issued.
The government has now issued a explanation saying that there wo n’t be property duty for small houses but small businesses will have to pay a stingy quantum. In a meeting chaired by the principal clerk Arun Kumar Mehta on Thursday, it was clarified that all poor, marginalised persons having small houses on area up to,000 square bases have been exempted from paying the property duty. The meeting was attended by fresh principal clerk, home; star clerk, H&UDD; ADGP Jammu/ Kashmir; deputy officers; SSPs; officers of Jammu and Srinagar external pots and other officers concerned.
The government, by assessing the property duty, is hoping to raise 120 to 150 crores annually which will be used to ameliorate fiscal conditions of civic original bodies to make them tone- sustaining as other corridor of the country. star clerk, casing and civic development department, Rajesh Prasad said there’s no duty liability for those having erected- up area of their houses lower than,000 square bases besides the proportion of levies is vastly lower than what’s levied in other corridor of the country. “ also, all places of deification, including tabernacles, masjids, gurdwaras, churches, ziarats, cremation grounds, burial grounds etc are pure from payment of property duty. ”
