SDMC proposes professional tax in budget
NEW DELHI: SDMC Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti on Friday proposed a levy of professional tax as he presented the budget for 2019-20. As per the proposal, residents whose income is Rs 20,000 or more will have to pay Rs 100 and those earning Rs 50,000 or more will pay Rs 200 as professional tax.
Moreover, in a move to boost its revenue, the SDMC Commissioner also proposed to increase house tax by merging three categories of residential and non-residential colonies into two now.
Residential properties are divided into three categories such as A-B, C-D-E and FGH, a senior SDMC official said, adding that earlier, residents used to pay 12, 11 and 7 per cent house tax respectively but with the proposal; the categories A-B-C-D-E will be merged together and residents will now have to pay12 percent as house tax.similarly, non-residential commercial properties after the merger of two categories of property will pay 15 percent as tax. Earlier, properties in category C-D-E used to pay 10 percent while owners of E-F-G category paid 12 percent tax.
Presenting budget estimates of Rs 5245.63 for the financial year 2019-20 on Friday, the SDMC Commissioner proposed to merge non- residential properties like guest houses, sarai, lodges; restaurants without bars in the category of special non- commercial properties. It is also proposed that they will pay a 20 percent house tax on their annual value. The Commissioner also laid emphasis on solar power, education, sanitation, waste segregation and issuing online birth and death certificates free of cost during his speech. Bharti said that presently waste segregation is being done in 40 wards and it will be extended to other remaining wards.he proposed spending 18.99 percent on education, 26.27 percent on sanitation, 13.79 percent on engineering and 6.74 percent on health, out of the total budget.
The Commissioner also said that the facility of insurance cover to the daily wage worker and contractual employees under Prime Minister Jiowan Jyoti Bima Yojana will also be provided.