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Mangaluru: ICICI Bank , in association with Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC), on Wednesday, inaugurated a digital tax collection centre to facilitate digital payment of municipal taxes for the residents of the city of Mangaluru. These taxes include property tax, water cess and trade licence, among others.The tax collection solution has been customised by the bank, wherein it has integrated a hand-held, point-of-sale (PoS) machine with the MCC server—to instantly fetch, accept and update payment data in real-time. The new digital tax collection centre has been set up at the bank’s extension counter at the MCC ward office at Valencia.With this, taxpayers in the city can pay over 20 types of taxes to the MCC at this centre, using digital modes of credit and debit card, in addition to cash, cheque and demand draft. In that case, prior to the branch visit, they will have to log in to the website www.mangalorecity.mrc.gov.in to fill in the details of tax payment and generate an e-challan.List of taxes that can be paid at the digital tax collection centreProperty tax, water cess, enterprise tax, regularisation/penalties/fines, advertisement tax, building licence fees, fees for certificates and extracts, khata extract fees, khata transfer fees, development charges and betterment fees, market fees, road cutting and restoration charges and trade licence. This offers taxpayers the increased convenience of a one-stop solution to generate e-challans and pay taxes directly to the MCC instantly.Tax payers can also make tax payments in cash, cheque or demand draft at any of the six branches of the bank in the city..