Property owners face taxing time paying tax in Mohali

Sanjay Bumbroo

Tribune News Service

Mohali, July 11

Glitches in the new software launched by the state government are causing problems for the residents of Mohali in depositing property tax with the Municipal Corporation.

Paramjit Singh, a resident of Sector 60, said he tried to pay property tax online through the MC website but it was not responding. He added that several residents of his area faced the similar problem.

He said during the Covid times, people, especially senior citizens, were avoiding to move out of their homes and preferring to deposit property tax as well as electricity and water bills online. Since the website was not functioning, people were forced to stand in long queues at the MC office to deposit tax on time so as to avoid late fee, he added.

Another resident of the town, Surjit Singh, said he had visited the MC website and the mSeva portal to deposit the tax but could not do so. He said he was not interested in visiting the MC office to deposit property tax due to the fear of getting infected with the virus which had taken many lives. He demanded that MC officials should remove the technical glitches.

Deputy Mayor Kuljti Singh Bedi said the MC was having its own software for payment of property tax till March 31 this year. The software was working smoothly and people had become used to it. From April 1, the Punjab Government provided a new software/portal, mSeva, for the payment of property tax. Due to glitches in this software, the system sometimes got hampered. He said at present, people could either pay property tax on the mSeva portal or at various counters set up on the MC complex.