New Delhi, March 3: Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the BJP-dominated East Delhi Municipal Corporation (EDMC) has extended the last date to avail an amnesty scheme for a charge of belongings tax end of March, officers said Sunday.

The other two BJP-dominated organizations, the North and South Corporations — NDMC and SDMC — had stored March 31 best as the remaining date while announcing the scheme in advance. Mumbai: KDMC Official Demands Sexual Favour to Reduce Property Tax; Arrested.

“For property proprietors in east Delhi, the amnesty scheme has been extended until the giving up of March. It turned into to be effective until February 28 in advance,” a senior EDMC respectable stated.

Under the amnesty scheme, asset proprietors within the town will not pay hobbies and penalties if they clear pending dues of the tax.

“For east Delhi, areas in attention are the unauthorized colonies and unauthorized regularised colonies in which people do now not pay belongings taxes. The idea is to make this scheme serve as an incentive to deliver them underneath the tax internet,” the respectable said.

In North Delhi, the NDMC has introduced a comparable scheme that covers all non-public properties, while within south Delhi, the SDMC scheme covers all houses.

For assets owners in north Delhi, the scheme will help cowl defaulters who have no longer filed property tax since April 2004, officials said.

A senior SDMC professional said, ” In south Delhi, many of the most important areas that stay out of tax net are rural city areas and concrete villages.”

“People living in those regions need to be delivered beneath the tax internet to enhance the company’s profits,” he stated.

The companies have been pronouncing comparable schemes every 12 months near the cease of a financial year. However, assets said, with elections inside the offing, such amnesty schemes are being implemented, maintaining citizens’ thoughts.