Yes. Not just that. The shop owners had not responded to multiple notices from the GHMC to pay up the arrears or face consequences. But again, they failed to respond which led to this ultimately and they learned their lesson.
The 82 shop owners made the payments late in the evening at the circle office. The GHMC officials have said that these shop owners had not paid any for the past two years and they did not seem like they would.
But some of them realised their mistakes very quickly and paid the taxes that they owed. About 82 of the shop owners paid the taxes which came upto over Rs. 20 lakhs. The rest of the 148 properties are yet to pay the taxes.
These shops were all identified as ones which did not pay any property taxes for quite a while. There was a total of 1 crore rupees are still held up as they did not pay them yet.
Yes. You know all of the 315 shops were closed even before they could be opened back on Thursday morning and the GHMC seized control from them and held them not letting them go with the day.
A total of over 80 offcials from the GHMC's tax department that came together to make this happen. The entomologist and even the sanitation wing too were present here when the seize happeneed due to defaulting on taxes.
There has been a huge development here. As in, as many as 315 shops in Jagdish Market were seized on Thursday by the GHMC’s Abids Circle officials for defaulting on property tax. The market, known for electronic gadgets, was all empty on Thursday.