Date:02/01/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/02/stories/2009010259040300.htm

Tamil Nadu

Improve tax collection

Staff Reporter

Achieve target, officials told

Tirupur: The Additional Director of Municipal Administration, D. Chandrasekaran, has instructed the Tirupur Corporation officials to focus on the litigation cases pending and to take steps to improve tax collection.

At a special review meeting held with senior Corporation officials here on Tuesday evening, he asked them to consult the Government Pleader to file counter petitions in all cases where the Commissioner of Municipal Administration (CMA) and Principal Secretary (Municipal Administration) to the Government of Tamil Nadu were respondents.

Pertaining to tax collection, Mr. Chandrasekaran asked the officials to carry out a dedicated crusade to achieve the targets set for revenue collection from property tax, water charges, professional taxes, rentals from shops and establishments, and annual lease fees from slaughter houses and markets, for this financial year, in February itself.

He gave the instructions after it was noticed that tax collection had been tardy during the current financial year, so far.

“Only about 20 per cent of the targeted collection for the fiscal has been realised till now,” Mr. Chandrasekaran later told The Hindu.

Commissioner M. Ashokan and officials from revenue, engineering and town planning sections, were present at the meeting.

Later, Mr. Chandrasekaran visited Perichipalayam village to assess the genuineness of the claims of a total of 124 families in the region for free house site pattas to them.

According to the dwellers, they are eligible for house site pattas since being residents of the respective plots for more than three decades.