North Corporation to launch interactive portal for property tax

The North Delhi Municipal Corporation will launch an interactive portal on property tax by next month.

The portal will provide all information related to eligible property tax payers, amount due as per prevalent rates and tax collected, area, colony, zone, category and use (residential/commercial/institutional etc.) of the properties.

At a press conference on Monday, North MCD commissioner Praveen Gupta said that portal will integrate all features related to the registered properties.

“Tax payers can apply for the mutation/change of ownership of property through this portal within 30 days by entering a unique property identification code (UPIC) number, property details and clear all pending dues. The system will generate notices to defaulters failing to pay tax on time and send emails too,” he said.

“Though we have an online system for submitting the property tax, it has certain limitations and drawbacks,” said Gupta.

According to him, the portal will not just simplify the process of submitting tax but also allow payers to make changes in the records related to properties whenever required.

The portal will also have provision for lodging complaints against the person who has provided false details about his/her properties.

The civic agency has already scanned the data of 5, 31, 389 properties that would be included in this portal. These addresses were collected through old records , challans, stamp duty etc.

“Pak army carried out unprovoked rocket and mortar firing on two forward posts ... Simultaneously a BAT action was launched on a patrol operating between the two posts. In an unsoldierly act by the Pak army, the bodies of two of our soldiers in the patrol were mutilated,” the army statement said.

Singh, the senior-most member of the squad, was leading the patrol.

The Pakistani army denied mutilating the bodies, saying theirs is a “highly professional force and will never disrespect a soldier”.

“Pakistan Army did not commit any ceasefire violation on LoC as alleged by India. Indian blame of mutilating Indian soldiers’ bodies is also false,” a statement from the neighbouring country’s inter-services public relations wing said.

Other than Singh and Sagar, another two BSF soldiers came under attack but they survived. Constable Rajender Kumar was one of the wounded, while the other’s identity is yet to be revealed.

The Pakistani army has violated a 2003 ceasefire agreement between the two countries 65 times in four months this year.

Sources said Pakistan’s 647 Mujahid Battalion, deployed on the forward defence line, was responsible for the firing that began at 8.25am.

At least four rocket-propelled grenades and bursts of automatic weapons were fired towards the Kripan-1 outpost, manned by the BSF.

Indian soldiers retaliated with automatic weapons at 8.40am, officials said. The firing lasted almost an hour.

“It was a pre-planned operation of the Pakistani army. They had pushed BAT members into India and set up ambushes to carry out the attack,” a senior army officer said.

The woman told reporters that the MP had assaulted her too.

“I made a CD because he was threatening me and I wanted to keep it as a proof. Police refused to register my FIR so I had to move court.”

Patel denied the charges and accused the woman of running a racket that lures parliamentarians. “These are all false allegations, I have full faith in law; will cooperate in the investigation,” he said.

Under section 29 (c) of the Act, political parties had to file contribution reports, complete with the names of donors and their addresses, for amounts above ~20,000 from a single person or company.

The commission has also expressed concern over the nonimplementation of lowering the cash donation component from ~20,000 to ~2,000 as was suggested by it.

“The announcement was made, but there is no formal announcement to the EC on this,” the source told HT.

The Election Commission has suggested limiting the tax exemption to contributions under ~20 crore or 20% of the total collection, whichever is lesser.

Anything over ~20 crore will be taxed.

The poll panel feels the biggest blow to measures for ensuring transparency is the amendment to the Companies Act 2013 that removed the cap on corporate contributions to political parties. “The removal of the cap of 7.5% on the contribution means corporate houses will now be able to donate unlimited sums. Worse, this will not be shown in their books,” the source said.

Earlier, all companies were required to declare contributions to political entities in their profit and loss statements; they had to give details of the amount contributed and the name of the party.

The commission fears this amendment will increase the probability of shell companies coming up for channeling donations to political parties.