At 88.4%, MCC achieves file property tax assortment in 2025 | Mysuru Information – The Occasions of India

Mysuru: The Mysuru Metropolis Company (MCC) achieved a file 88.4% property tax assortment by the tip of Dec 2025, the best ever for the civic physique.In earlier years, tax assortment didn’t cross the 80% mark by year-end. Officers attributed the development to new measures launched this 12 months, together with publishing the names of main defaulters—people, business institutions and govt organisations—on the company’s official web site.

The initiative, applied for the primary time, considerably boosted compliance in comparison with earlier years.The checklist included prime defaulters from each business and enormous residential classes. After issuing a number of notices and reminders, MCC adopted this public-disclosure technique to strengthen income restoration, serving to it obtain its highest-ever property tax assortment.Different measures resembling involving chosen girls self-help group members for tax assortment in particular wards, door-to-door assortment, SMS alerts to main defaulters, and an consciousness drive urging taxpayers to avail the 5% rebate provided within the preliminary months of the monetary 12 months additionally contributed to the improved efficiency.MCC achieved 79.06% for the corresponding interval ending Dec in the course of the fiscal 12 months 2024-25, with a property tax assortment of Rs 198.8 crore. In 2023-34, MCC registered a property tax assortment of Rs 164.2 crore.MCC additionally despatched cellular SMS textual content messages to large property tax defaulters concerning the impending penalties if their excellent taxes weren’t cleared. There are 1,83,000 properties inside MCC limits. Property tax is without doubt one of the necessary sources of income for MCC, together with different sources like commerce licence and constructing licence charges.Talking to TOI, MCC deputy commissioner (income) Somashekhar stated that particular measures and techniques, together with publishing the checklist of huge property defaulters on its official web site, proved extremely efficient in property tax assortment this 12 months in comparison with earlier years. MCC focused 100% property tax assortment by the tip of March for fiscal 12 months 2025-26, he said.“MCC should give you another measures to spice up its income by simplifying property tax assortment, resembling sensitising taxpayers to pay property tax like they pay water cess and energy tariff payments each month with out fail,” stated Mohan Kumar, a resident of Vidyaranyapuram. “Apart from, it should keep away from taxpayers shifting from pillar to submit for tax funds,” he stated.