Times of India: Hyderabad: Wednesday, 18 May 2022.
Not just state government departments and other undertakings which owe over 5,500 crore tax dues to the GHMC, even the central government departments and PSUs have pending tax arrears running into hundreds of crores of rupees to the GHMC.
A Right to Information Act reply from GHMC commissioner DS Lokesh Kumar revealed that various central departments’ arrears stand at 281 crore, with South Central Railway emerging as the biggest defaulter of property tax for nine years. The SCR owes 172 crore, while the BSNL is the top defaulter among the PSUs. Central PSUs collectively owe around 89 crore to the civic body. Salarjung Museum (SJM) and Central Detective Training Institute (CDTI) are among the other defaulters.
The RTI was filed by Forum for Good Governance secretary M Padmanabha Reddy, seeking details of the defaulters.
Officials said central organisations are better than state government departments in clearing the property tax. However, some haven’t paid despite regular demand notices being sent to them.
Central public works department has outstanding dues of 26.8 crore over 11 years, according to the RTI reply.
Defence organisations like DRDO, DMRL and DLRL owe 10.6 crore for the last year. Central Research Institute of Unani Medicine owes 7.4 crore for the past 25 years to the GHMC.
CDTI has 5.3 crore arrears for the last seven years and SJM’s dues stand at 4.5 crore over seven years. Central excise and customs department has pending dues of 2.4 crore. Several research institutes have also failed to pay the property tax which have been pending with a duration of one year to 10 years.
Among central government undertaking units, HMT lamp division owes 30 crore for the past seven years and BSNL 36.5 crore for six years.
However, several central government departments have raised concerns at the way the property tax arrears have been calculated. A spokesperson of SCR said the SCR and GHMC formed a mediation committee to discuss the property tax. “We have objected to the calculations made by the GHMC. The committee has been deliberating on the issue. Since 2015-16, the issue has cropped up. However, we have been depositing a certain amount every year with the GHMC. We can’t be called defaulters as the negotiations are still on,” he said
Not just state government departments and other undertakings which owe over 5,500 crore tax dues to the GHMC, even the central government departments and PSUs have pending tax arrears running into hundreds of crores of rupees to the GHMC.
A Right to Information Act reply from GHMC commissioner DS Lokesh Kumar revealed that various central departments’ arrears stand at 281 crore, with South Central Railway emerging as the biggest defaulter of property tax for nine years. The SCR owes 172 crore, while the BSNL is the top defaulter among the PSUs. Central PSUs collectively owe around 89 crore to the civic body. Salarjung Museum (SJM) and Central Detective Training Institute (CDTI) are among the other defaulters.
The RTI was filed by Forum for Good Governance secretary M Padmanabha Reddy, seeking details of the defaulters.
Officials said central organisations are better than state government departments in clearing the property tax. However, some haven’t paid despite regular demand notices being sent to them.
Central public works department has outstanding dues of 26.8 crore over 11 years, according to the RTI reply.
Defence organisations like DRDO, DMRL and DLRL owe 10.6 crore for the last year. Central Research Institute of Unani Medicine owes 7.4 crore for the past 25 years to the GHMC.
CDTI has 5.3 crore arrears for the last seven years and SJM’s dues stand at 4.5 crore over seven years. Central excise and customs department has pending dues of 2.4 crore. Several research institutes have also failed to pay the property tax which have been pending with a duration of one year to 10 years.
Among central government undertaking units, HMT lamp division owes 30 crore for the past seven years and BSNL 36.5 crore for six years.
However, several central government departments have raised concerns at the way the property tax arrears have been calculated. A spokesperson of SCR said the SCR and GHMC formed a mediation committee to discuss the property tax. “We have objected to the calculations made by the GHMC. The committee has been deliberating on the issue. Since 2015-16, the issue has cropped up. However, we have been depositing a certain amount every year with the GHMC. We can’t be called defaulters as the negotiations are still on,” he said
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