Summary:
Mr.
Sreedhar convened a press conference to highlight the poor progress in tax collection by the revenue wing of the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation. more-inMayor Koneru Sreedhar has expressed concern over the laxity of the officials in collecting taxes in time from the taxpayers. He said though there were more than two lakh assessments, officials were able to levy water charges on only half of them. Despite repeated instructions from the Mayor and the Commissioner that every assessment must be given a UGD connection, officials have failed to do so. He said the revenue wing had collected only ?52.04 crore, that is 42%, of property tax against the actual demand of ?124 crore so far this financial year..