The Chandigarh civic body has requested that the railways, the UT, Punjab, and Haryana governments pay property tax.

CHANDIGARH: The Municipal Corporation (MC), which has been focusing on defaulters who owe a large amount of property tax, has written a DO (demi-official) letter to top officials of Chandigarh Railway Station, going to ask them to deposit tax of around Rs 2.30 crore.

The sum also includes arrears owed to the authority by the Chandigarh Railway Station. The amount was calculated by taking into account all previous arrears.

Furthermore, the civic body authority has written to officials from the Punjab and Haryana governments, as well as the Chandigarh administration, requesting that unpaid taxes be paid. The Chandigarh administration’s engineering department owes the MC an additional tax of around Rs 9.29 crore.

A list of the amount, as well as the specific buildings in question, is attached. After extensive discussions with senior MC officials, the DO letter to the railways and specific letters to the two state governments were written. The Chandigarh Railway Station is one of the government offices with the highest tax burden.

“Discussions were held with officials from the Chandigarh Railway Station. The matter was thoroughly discussed, taking into account all of the records, amounts, and financial aspects involved.

While they did pay some amount in previous years, they did not pay the entire sum calculated by the civic body authority. The majority of the arrears have not been paid, leaving the authority with no choice but to send them a recovery notice,” according to sources.

This is not the first time the MC and the Chandigarh Railway Station have disagreed over taxes. According to sources, the railway authority maintained that because they were a government department, they were not required to pay the tax amount calculated by the MC.

The MC, on the other hand, claims that even government organizations must pay taxes to the government.