Pune, May 10: THE Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) tax department on Thursday decided to cancel the backdated assessment of property owner Someshwar Prabhakar Bhide.
On Tuesday, Pune Newsline had reported how the PMC has asked Bhide and some 350 others to pay tax on their property from the previous years.
Bhide had applied for tax assessment for his 2,000 sq feet plot at Kondhwa Budruk in April 2006. The PMC, instead of charging the assessment fee for that year, had asked him to make the payment from April 1, 2005.
The PMC has now rectified the notice and Bhide has to pay Rs 10,000 less. According to the earlier notice, he had to pay Rs 5,440 per year from 2005.
“The tax department officials visited my residence on Thursday morning and handed me the rectified notice. I now have to pay Rs 6,888,” said Bhide.
Bhide’s refusal to pay the backdated amount had stalled his plans of constructing a house on the open plot. “I will pay the tax immediately and forward my building permission plan,” he said.
Acting assistant tax collector and assessor Dyanand Sonkamble said there was a ‘mistake’ in the earlier notice by the civic administration. “We checked our files and realised that the assessment year should have been 2006 but was typed wrongly as 2005,” he said.
Moreover, Sonkamble said the PMC will verify the legality of all cases of backdated assessments and make amends wherever necessary.
