
Heavy real estate tax collection irritates Shamshabad citizens

Hyderabad: As the Shamshabad Municipality authorities most likely to every home to accumulate real estate tax from the people prior to the monetary year finishes, the variety of complaints is additionally raising.
The citizens grievances regarding mistake, hold-up in re-assessment, hefty taxation and also hold-up in acting on complaints. They claim that they are incapable to pay tax obligation online as a result of technological problems in the site.
One such plaintiff, T Srinivas, is utilized in an exclusive firm, staying inKothwalguda “Without any notice or re-assessment, higher rates of property tax are being collected; earlier it was Rs 4,550 and now it is Rs 9,540 even though no additional construction or modification was taken up to my house. Even my neighbours are facing the same issue. Complaints have been lodged, but no action has been taken,” he claimed.
Another citizen, Rajesh Reddy, that possesses a three-storey structure in Shamshabad claimed, “to inquire about the property tax rates and to know the assessment process after the implementation of new Municipal Act 2019, several times we visited the nunicipal office and the website, but not a single issue has been resolved or heard by the officials; the website always shows technical glitches.”
The Shamshabad town was comprised in 2018 and also proclaimed a city regional body (ULB). There are 21 wards. The complete populace based on Census 2011 is 44,651, The public body wasformed by combining 6 gram panchayats–Shamshabad and also its outer 5 gram panchayats that include Thondupally, Ootpally, Chinna Gollapalli, Kothwalguda and alsoSatamrai Shamshabad town lies near theRajiv Gandhi International Airport It gets on the Nehru Outer Ring Road and also National Highway 44. Shamshabad community has Umdanagar train terminal which attaches Secunderabad to Bangalore.