Kolhapur Property owners can pay their property tax online from April 1

The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) in Maharashtra will introduce the online assessment and payment system from next fiscal year wherein property owners can pay their property tax online from April 1, 2016. The new system will help to reduce human interference and avoid mistakes like wrong calculation of the tax amount or less assessment or evaluation.

At present, e-governance service provider helps the property owners to calculate the tax amount. But, there were several complaints every year about the amount wrongly calculated. The new system will provide the details of property owner, their property and the system will automatically calculate the property tax considering the ready reckoner rates. To enable this, the existing system has to be updated by uploading the database like property number, type, location, ready reckoner rates.

The new system will reduce human interference, enable property owners to know that property tax is due and the system will generate sms or email to provide the acknowledgement receipt or reference details of payment received.

Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) consists over 70 types of building like educational, residential, industrial and community halls and consists over 1.35 lakh properties. The new system will increase tax collection and avoid issues like property owners not receiving the property tax bills on time.