Tribune News Service Amritsar April 8 Around 150 cheques deposited by residents to pay property tax have been dishonoured to date. Even during the last fiscal cheques amounting to Rs16 lakh got dishonoured. The property tax wing has added this amount in recovery but money has not been collected. The MC recovered only Rs22.50 crore from the property tax previous fiscal which also includes dishonoured cheques. A senior official of the MC has prepared a zone-wise list of dishonoured cheques and asked his staff to visit tax payers and recover dues. As per officials of the property tax wing around 150 cheques have been dishonoured in the last three years. A list has been prepared of those tax payers whose cheques were dishonoured in order to collect the tax and penalise them. The MC will also take legal action in case these persons do not pay tax. Last year MC Commissioner Komal Mittal had chargesheeted eight employees of the property tax wing for not recovering charges after cheques got dishonoured in October 2020. According to information cheques amounting to Rs40 lakh were were dishonoured from 2013 to 2018. During an audit in 2019 the MC officials found that the cheques were in record but the amount was not recovered. Later the MC chargsheeted its employees and asked them to revisit the violators and collect tax. Officials said some employees recovered tax from those property owners whose cheques got dishonoured and a senior official of the MC gave them a clean chit. Sandip Rishi Additional Commissioner MC said “Earlier we had 150 cases related to dishonoured cheques. Now we are checking our record. Superintendents have been asked to revisit those persons whose cheques bounced within seven days.”

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