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Vacant Land Tax Committee to recover over Rs 870 crore tax dues in Vijayawada

Vacant Land Tax Committee to recover over Rs 870 crore tax dues in Vijayawada

Time of India3 hours ago
Vijayawada: Aiming to enhance the tax collection revenue, the NTR district administration has constituted a Vacant Land Tax Committee (VLTC) to collect pending vacant land tax dues from tax payers within Vijayawada Municipal Corporation (VMC) limits.
The VLTC will comprise of the revenue wings from both VMC and NTR district administration along with town planning of VMC and district stamps and registration department personnel. It was found that despite Rs 237 crore vacant land tax demand, the civic body managed to collect only Rs 19 crore, totalling a mere 8.18% out of the total vacant land tax from tax payers in the previous 2024-25 financial year in the city.
The VMC has around 15,000 vacant land tax assessments across the 64 divisions under three circles in the city.
"The vacant land tax collection remains low due to the unavailability of the whereabouts of the original owners. Majority of the taxpayers reside in other places thus tracking and tracing of these vacant land owners is not possible for the municipal corporation personnel due to which the vacant land collection dues are mounting in the VMC," a senior municipal corporation official told TOI.
More than Rs 870 crore vacant land tax dues to be paid by the tax payers were pending to the civic body in the last five financial years between 2020-2025, according to VMC records.
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"With the help of the revenue department officials including VROs, MROs, and sub registrars the address details of the tax payers will be identified secretariat wise across all secretariats. Notices will be served to top 10 tax payers identified under each secretariat," the VMC official said and added that initially the identification of tax defaulters exercise will begin from those secretariats which are having least number of tax defaulters.
The official added that the ward secretariat staff of the municipal corporation will be handed over to the revenue and stamps and registration department personnel to find out their address details.
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