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Many of these banquet halls are located on the old-Delhi Gurgaon road.The maximum outstanding amount is from Zone 2, where 45 banquet halls have Rs 8.4 crore as pending taxes. GURUGRAM: An amount of Rs 9.57 crore is pending in property tax payments of private banquet halls in the city, that have been in existence for the last 10 years.According to officials of MCG , there are altogether 76 banquet halls in MCG’s four zones, none of which have paid property taxes. Zone 4, with five properties, has dues amounting to Rs 66.7 lakh. The number of such properties in Zone 1 are 21 and in Zone 3 five, with dues amounting to Rs 36.6 lakh and Rs 13.8 lakh respectively.“Some of these properties have not paid taxes for years. TOI had earlier reported that none of the private banquet halls in Gurgaon have no objection certificates (NOCs) as revealed by a recent fire audit.According to MCG officials, inspections were carried out at several public spots that revealed 62 private banquet halls in the city are being operated without fire clearance certificates.“These places are highly susceptible to incidents of fire, given that cooking and other fire-related activities take place frequently..