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Q-1

What are the base reference documents applicable to property taxes? Which are the relevant and applicable laws and circulars and their amendments from time to time?
Q-2 What are the Compulsory registers/documents to be maintained by the corporation in relation to ptax?
Q-3 Who are the key personnel of the Assessment and Recovery Department?
Q-4 What are the wards demarcation for the purpose of assessment.
Q-5 How is Property defined and what all could be liable to Property Tax?
Q-6 Do open plots invite taxes?
Q-7 What are the components of Property Tax?
Q-8 On what premises is General Tax levied?
Q-9 On what premises is Water Tax levied?
Q-10

On what premises is Conservancy Tax levied?
Q-11 Is there any guiding document for calculation of Ptax?
Q-12 Which property & whose property are exempted or assessed at reduced rate (concession) in case of Property Tax? (E.g. institutes like Gov. Bldg. or school or places of worship or properties of persons like Senior Citizens or Physically handicapped, etc.)
Q-13 When does a property enter into first time assessment?
Q-14 When does a property need to be assessed or reassessed?
Q-15 What is the procedure for entering property for new or revised assessment?
Q-16 What if the new property is not entered for the taxation?
Q-17 What are the norms/formula/parameters for calculating assessment?
Q-18 How are the zones (locations) classified?
Q-19 How do I identify the rate applicable to my property for the assessment?
Q-20 Whom should I contact, if I am not satisfied with the appraised/assessed value of my property? (right from very preliminary level to higher level authority)
Q-21 How is my property assessed if used for both residential and non-residential (commercial) use?
Q-22 What are the Rates of Property Tax?
Q-23 What if I don’t receive the bill, where to check if my bill has been issued, where to get my duplicate bill?
Q-24 I have rented out the property. Can I receive the property tax Bill at a different mailing address at my risk?
Q-25 Is there any provision to issue the demand bill in duplicate one for the tenant and one for the owner?
Q-26 What should I carry along with me for payment of Ptax?
Q-27 Any guidelines for cheques, other do’s and don’ts?
Q-28 What if my cheque bounces? What are the consequences (both in monetary and non-monetary terms)?
Q-29 What are the modes of payment for the bill? Are credit cards acceptable? Which?
Q-30 Why am I asked for advance Property tax ?
Q-31 What are the benefits to pay the advance taxes?
Q-32

Who is responsible to pay property tax in case of rented property - owner or tenant?
Q-33 What if the tenant has not paid PTax for several years and later on he vacates the property?
Q-34 What if, I don’t pay my property tax in the specified time period, what is the penalty for the delay?
Q-35 When does a property get listed out from assessment?
Q-36 Longtime unused/abandoned property : how about them ?
Q-37 What if the sale of property takes place somewhere in the middle of the year?
Q-38 What is the procedure to change the name for a property?
 
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