Ambala Congress Bhawan owes MC Rs 13L property tax, gets notice

Tribune News Service

Ambala, January 19

The Ambala Municipal Corporation today pasted a notice on the gates of the Congress Bhawan in Ambala City for not paying property tax of over Rs13 lakh.

The notice has been issued in the name of the president, Congress Bhawan. The building is situated in ward number 10 of Ambala City. The notice pegged the total dues at Rs13,83,691 and stated that if no reply was submitted and the tax pending for several years was not paid, the corporation will seal the building.

Mithun Verma, the Congress councillor from the ward, said, “The tax was wrongly assessed. I will take up the matter with the MC. The Congress is ready to pay the actual amount of tax.”

Rohit Jain, Treasurer, Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, said, “We wrote to the MC that the demand was unjustified and the assessment was not correct.”

Aman Dhanda, Deputy Municipal Commissioner, said, “A seven-day period has been given for personal hearing following which further action will be taken.” —

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