Government Moots New Property Tax, Water Bill Payment System 

Hyderabad, Sept 15 (Maxim News): Aiming to streamline the revenue generation system, the State government has come up with a proposal to collect property taxes by the GHMC and water bills by the Hyderabad Water Board in easy monthly installments on the lines of power bills which are issued by the Energy department regularly every month.

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On the instructions of Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, the GHMC and Water Board began the exercises to simplify the existing taxation system. The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation collects property tax every six months or a year and the water bills are being collected from the residents who consumed more than 20,000 liters only.

Official sources said that DISCOMS is issuing monthly power bills and also provides an online platform to pay the bills through UPI. Consumers are using technological advancements to pay their bills regularly.  On the same lines, a new system will be developed to pay property tax, water bill, and garbage collection bill every month.  In the recent meeting, the CM also told the officials that the payment of property tax and water bills in easy monthly installments would also reduce the burden on the consumers.  He also suggested that there should be a citizen-friendly easy payment system to pay these bills every month through all these payment platforms along with UPI.  The CM Wanted to fix the last day to pay the bills every month and impose a fine if they failed.  The energy wing is successfully imposing fine charges on those who failed to pay the power bills before the last date. 

A proposal to offer incentives to those who pay the property tax and water bills promptly and also concessions for them in the last month of every year is under consideration.  The Chief Minister has also issued instructions to the officials of the Finance Department to make arrangements to deposit the revenues generated from the LRS in the accounts of the Municipal Corporation directly.  (Maxim News)

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