Over 35% properties in Pimpri Chinchwad unregistered with tax department

The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) property tax department has found a survey that about 35% of the properties within the PCMC limits 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 within the PCMC jurisdiction, the administration of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) outsourced the survey to an outside organization.

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

Although the numbering of properties has begun in a number of areas, a senior PCMC official stated that Bhosari, Wakad, and other areas are currently receiving the majority of attention. They will cover every other area as well. The PCMC has noticed that about 35% of these properties aren’t registered with the property tax department as the survey teams are numbering each property. Thus, they have not given PCMC any property tax.

The Wakad area contains a sizable number of unregistered properties.

So far, numbering of 3,05,573 properties has been done. Over the past six months, about 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 PCMC official went on to say that the property tax department currently has over six lakh properties registered with it. By the end of the survey, two to three lakh unregistered properties are probably going to be found, based on the data of the properties surveyed thus far.

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

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

During the internal survey, officials discovered more problems with these properties.

Many properties that are registered for residential use are being used for commercial purposes, according to a PCMC official. The area of the property on the ground does not match the area registered with the municipal corporation as a result.

Thus far, the civic body has done internal measurement of about 45,000 properties. The teams took ground measurements of the properties and compared them with PCMC records.

Numerous property owners have altered the layout of their buildings, and as a result, their property tax needs to be adjusted, according to a PCMC official. However, since the property is unregistered, modifications made to a new property are not subject to taxes and are regarded as illegal.