More than 35% of the properties in Pimpri Chinchwad are not tax-registered.

PUNE: An ongoing survey found that almost 35 percent of the properties in the CΜΡ boundaries are not registered with the property tax department.

In order to assign a Unique Property Identification Code (UPIC), which will function as a unique ID for all properties under the PCMC jurisdiction, the administration of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has contracted out the survey to an outside organization.

With this ID, property owners can pay taxes to the local government and access other services.

Although the numbering of homes has begun in a number of locations, Bhosari, Wakad, and Pimpri Waghere are currently receiving the majority of attention. We’ll cover every other area as well. We’ve noticed that about 35% of these properties aren’t registered with the property tax department as the survey teams are numbering each one. Therefore, PCMC has not collected property tax from them, according to PCMC’s assistant municipal commissioner, Pradeep Jambhale Patil.

The Wakad area contains a sizable amount of unregistered properties.

Thus far, 3,05,573 properties have had their numbers assigned. Over the past six months, over 300 agency employees have been working in the field. It will probably take another 1.5 years to finish the entire survey and measure every property internally.

“The property tax agency currently has approximately six lakh properties registered with it. At the completion of the study, two to three lakh unregistered properties are probably going to be found, according to the data of the properties surveyed thus far, according to Patil.

These property owners will shortly get notices from the municipal corporation encouraging them to register with the local body.

“The estimated annual tax amount is likely to double once these unregistered properties are added,” a civic official stated. “The expected property tax is around Rs 600 crore.”

According to officials, information about unregistered properties was withheld in the past since a comprehensive survey of this kind was not carried out and property owners took advantage of the advantages.

According to regulations, the civic body is allowed to collect dues for a maximum of six years, so PCMC is probably going to get the unpaid taxes from these property owners.

During the internal measurement, officials discovered more problems with these attributes.

We’ve seen that a large number of properties that are registered as residential are being used commercially. The area of the property on the ground does not match the area registered with the municipal corporation as a result, according to an official.

Thus far, the civic authority has measured the interior of almost 45,000 properties. The teams took ground measurements of the property and compared them with PCMC records.

Numerous property owners have modified the structure of their properties, and as a result, their taxes ought to be adjusted, according to a city official who wished to remain anonymous. However, he added, “changes made to a new property do not fall under the tax ambit and are considered illegal since the property is not registered.”